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- Altitude Sickness - This comprehensive article is from The Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses by
Rick Curtis, Director, Outdoor Action Program, Princeton University.
- An Altitude Tutorial - The International Society for Mountain Medicine's tutorial covering acclimatization, AMS, HACE, and HAPE. Includes treatment and prevention information.
- CDC Travelers' Health Information on Altitude Illness - Center for Disease
Control's site covering Altitude Illness' definitions, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
- eMedicine Health - Web MD site provides a Mountain Illness overview, causes, symptoms, treatment, tests, self-care and more.
- GORP - Outdoor and Travel Health
- Information on preventing dehydration, hypothermia, acute mountain sickness. Plus links to other interesting sites, including: Wilderness Medicine, Outdoor Emergencies, Sun
Exposure, First Aid, Wilderness Survival, and Exercises for Hikers.
- Healthy Me - Children's Health information concerning altitude sickness, including definitions, description, causes and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- High Altitude Medicine Guide -
Provides current medical information on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illness.
- High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (and me) -
- A personal account of an experience with HAPE.
- Himalayan Rescue Association - Information
about symptoms and prevention of altitude sickness.
- International Society for Mountain Medicine - An Altitude Tutorial including: Acclimatization, Acute Mountain Sickness, HACE, HAPE, Treatment, Prevention and three Golden Rules.
- Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude - This article by Richard Curtis of Princeton University describes altitude related illnesses, their symptoms and treatment.
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