title: High-altitude medicine.
abstract: This article discusses prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illnesses, especially acute mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary edema, and high-altitude cerebral edema. Physicians advising travelers and trekkers who will be visiting high-altitude areas will find an organized approach to giving pretravel advice. Physicians practicing in or visiting high-altitude areas will find guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. This article also addresses the issue of patients with underlying diseases who wish to travel to high-altitude destinations.
authors.affiliation: Columbia Alaska Regional Hospital and Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zafren
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Honigman
mesh_terms: D000064:Acclimatization; D000208:Acute Disease; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001359:Aviation; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009051:Mountaineering; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D014195:Travel