The 12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019 is a conference and tour to Adventurous locations with high altitude.
The 12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019 includes topics such as:
- History of high altitude exploration
- Introduction to altitude medicine
- Acclimitisation
- Altitude physiology
- Acute Mountain Sickness
- Adaptation
- Determing fitness to climb
- HAPE and HACE
- Improvisation in an altitude environment
- Altitude nutrition
- Hypothermia
- Expedition medicine
- Drugs and altitude
- Heat stress
- Avalanche medicine
- Lightning strike
- Why things go wrong
- Exercise at altitude
- The latest research
- Altitude case studies
Who should Attend
Medical practitioners including physicians, nurses, paramedics and medical students.
