Goodfellow Unit Webinar: Travel medicine

Описание: Jenny will cover preparing the traveller going to high altitude. This will include an overview of what commonly goes wrong in trekkers to high altitude destinations (including acute altitude illness) and how best to advise them on prevention and preparation.

Peter will talk about his experience travelling at high altitudes in the countries he has visited. He will also talk about the issues of thriving/surviving at very high altitudes and the issues for people wanting to travel at high altitudes. He will also cover the issues of altitude sickness and what precautions are needed, e.g. fitness, age and medication etc. and the specific issues in climbing very high peaks, e.g. 8000+ metres (Mt Everest is 8849 m) in terms of sleeping and eating. He will also answer questions about his mountaineering and trekking experiences.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Presentation (Jenny Visser)
33:04 Audience Q&A
37:19 Conversation with Peter Hillary
54:42 Audience Q&A