Fighting in thin air: Operational wilderness medicine in high Asia

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 297-303

  Rodway, George W ^a   Muza, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acclimatization; altitude sickness; high altitude; history; military

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOLDIER; WAR; WILDERNESS MEDICINE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; RISK MANAGEMENT; WILDERNESS MEDICINE;

EID: 82755164446     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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