mountain medicine

A subspecialty of wilderness medicine that addresses medical/technical aspects of high-altitude travel/mountain sports
Areas of interest Mountain rescue and resuscitation, high-altitude physiology and pathophysiology, ‘mountain diseases’—e.g., frostbite, hypobaric hypoxia, mountain sickness, pulmonary oedema, solar radiation

mountain medicine

A subspecialty of wilderness medicine that addresses medical/technical aspects of high-altitude travel/mountain sports Areas of interest Mountain rescue and resuscitation, high-altitutude physiology and pathophysiology, 'mountain diseases'–eg, frostbite, hypobaric hypoxia, mountain sickness, pulmonary edema, solar radiation. See Mountain sickness, Wilderness medicine.