High Altitude Medicine and Physiology Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Conversion tables
	List of abbreviations
1	History	1
2	The atmosphere	22
3	Geography and the human response to altitude	33
4	Altitude acclimatization	44
5	Ventilatory response to hypoxia and carbon dioxide	50
6	Lung diffusion	65
7	Cardiovascular system	81
8	Hematology	97
9	Blood gas transport and acid-base balance	107
10	Peripheral tissues	119
11	Exercise	130
12	Limiting factors at extreme altitude	142
13	Sleep	156
14	Nutrition and intestinal function	168
15	Endocrine and renal systems at altitude	178
16	Central nervous system	191
17	High altitude populations	202
18	Acute mountain sickness	215
19	High altitude pulmonary edema	232
20	High altitude cerebral edema	247
21	Subacute and chronic mountain sickness	252
22	Other altitude related conditions: neurovascular disorders, eye conditions, altitude cough, anesthesia at altitude	259
23	Thermal balance and its regulation	271
24	Reaction to thermal extremes: cold and heat	284
25	Hypothermia	294
26	Frostbite and nonfreezing cold injury	306
27	Medical conditions at altitude	322
28	Women, children and elderly people at altitude	329
29	Commercial activities at altitude	336
30	Athletes and altitude	345
31	Clinical lessons from high altitude	350
32	Practicalities of field studies	357
	References	365
	Index	417