ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW, WITH SOME EXPERIENCES FROM THE PERUVIAN ANDES
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- review article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 2 (5) , 243-248
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb50532.x
Abstract
A study of the prevention of acute mountain sickness was performed on a group of Australian mountaineers. Frusemide in a dosage of 40 mg per day was given orally for three days to the mountaineers as...This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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