Basic information plus a utility to calculate the atmospheric pressure at any altitude.
Abstract of a 1996 article summarizing the current state of HAPE research and treatment.
High altitude travel advice. Information on chronic mountain sickness, high altitude pulmonary edema, the use of hyperoxic/hypoxic adaptation chambers, and triple hypoxia syndrome.
Information about the International Hypoxia Symposium including abstracts.
Information about and from this research charity dedicated to investigating the mechanisms of altitude related illness. Newsletter archive and planned expedition information.
Information on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illness, as well as other health issues affecting travelers to destinations at altitude.
Altitude tutorial. Newsletter archive. About the World Congress on Mountain Medicine and High Altitude Physiology.
Article from the American Heart Association on a study of the mechanism that causes HAPE.
Article from Emergency Medicine covering cerebral syndromes in altitude sickness from AMS to HACE.
Article from Emergency Medicine covering HAPE.
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