High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E

by John West, Robert Schoene, Andrew Luks, James Milledge

2012 · CRC Press

A comprehensive update to this preeminent and accessible text, this fifth edition of a bestseller was developed as a response to man's attempts to climb unaided to higher altitudes and to spend more time in these conditions for both work and recreation. It describes the ever-expanding challenges that doctors face in dealing with the changes in huma