News tagged with high altitude medicine

Taking dex can improve high altitude exercise capacity in certain climbers

Taking dexamathasone prophlyactically may improve exercise capacity in some mountaineers, according to Swiss researchers. Dexamathasone, known popularly to climbers as "dex," has been used for years to treat altitude-related ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploring how the body adapts to exercise at altitude-hypoxia affects muscle and nerve responses

Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record

The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0