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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jorge Hidalgo , Sabrina Da Re , António Gandra D'AlmeidaPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9783031350917ISBN 10: 303135091 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 31 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TO HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE.- History of high altitude medicine.- GENETICS IN HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE.- HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE, ITS RELEVANCE AND CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO METERS.- Management of high-altitude cerebral edema and high-altitude pulmonary edema.- Physiology of high-altitude illness.- ACID-BASE HOMEOSTASIS AT THE HIGH ALTITUDE.- Cardiovascular changes in high altitude.- High-Altitude Cerebral Edema.- EXCESSIVE ERYTHROCYTOSIS & CHRONIC MOUNTAIN SICKNESS.- Chronic Mountain Sickness.- HIGH ALTITUDE COR PULMONALE.- Importance of the diagnosis of patent foramen ovale to prevent ischemic stroke in height altitude and diving.- ENERGY BALANCE AND NUTRITION IN HIGH ALTITUDE.- EXERCISE AT HIGH-ALTITUDE.- Nutritional management of critically ill patients in High Altitude medicine.- Preexisting Condition and travel to High altitude.- WORKING AT HIGH ALTITUDE.- Acute Mountain Sickness.- PERIPHERAL TISSUE IN HIGH ALTITUDE.- High Altitude Sickness Not A Challenge but A Risk.ReviewsAuthor Information"Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and he is the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Belize Healthcare Partners, Central America. Dr Hidalgo is also the President-Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Hidalgo awarded with the highest recognition the American College of Physician offers to his members in 2012: “Master of the American College of Physician."" For the last decade, he is the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course host by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine: For the last ten consecutive years, He received the Presidential Citation Award. Most recently, He also got the Global Safar Award, and in 2016 the American College of Critical Care awarded him with the Master of the American College of Critical Care. Dr. Hidalgo became the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Award. He is fellow of the American College of Chest Physician, and he is an author of several chapters and Books on Critical Care Medicine, the two most recent publication with springer: Critical Care Administration and highly Infectious disease in Critical Care. He is the Editor of the FCCS Tropical, and he actively participates in the reviewing of the MCCRC, FCCS, FCCS Obstetrics and FCCS surgical for the society of Critica Care Medicine (SCCM). Dr. Hidalgo is a member and one of the authors of the most recently Surviving Sepsis Campaign. He is a regular international speaker. Dr. Sabrina Da Re Gutierrez was Professor of Pathophysiology at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz-Bolivia; Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Medical Residency Program at Caja Nacional de Salud, Bolivia and Head of the Critical Care Division at the Materno infantil Hospital, in La Paz, Bolivia. Besides, she was National Hospitals Chief and Regional Administrator of the Caja Nacional de Salud, Bolivia. Adviser for the Ministry of Health and the United Nations Development Programme, Bolivia. She was also President at Sociedad Boliviana de Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva Filial La Paz, Bolivia. She is fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. For the last decade Dr. Da Re promotes the Point-of-Care Ultrasonography, Multiprfessional Critical Care Medicine (MCCRC) and the Disaster Management (FDM). Dr. Sabrina Da Re is also author of several national standards, treatment guides, chapters, books and scientific publications on Critical Care Medicine. Her three most recent collegiate publications are: “Fisiología Respiratoria en ‘Bases Fisiopatológicas de la Medicina’” (Bogotá-Colombia), “Cuidados Generales en el Manejo del Traumatismo Craneoencefálico Grave: Consenso Latinoamericano” (Spain), “Ecografía en la Paciente Obstétrica” (México). Dr. Antonio Joao Gandra d’Almeida is a doctor in the Portuguese Armed Forces, with areas of interest in general surgery, critical care patients, emergency and catastrophe. He is invited professor of Coimbra university. He has a European Masters in Catastrophe, is a Fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Trainer of several courses in his areas of interest and an Editor of FCCS Surgical who has collaborated on several books. Is the North regional director of the Portuguese National Institute of Medical Emergency." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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