Tag Archives: altitude sickness

“What Everest Teaches About Disease” – WSJ

May 29th, 2012 - 8:42 am

Kudos to Shirley Wang for her article in today’s Wall St. Journal on the Mayo Everest expedition. Page D3 in the print edition, here’s the online story. Share/Bookmark

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“After” Tests Now Underway

May 24th, 2012 - 11:57 am

With many experiments it boils down to a “before” and an “after” — today was the after experience for North Face’s Derek Campbell and Mayo’s Joel Streed. They were both back in the lab on Mayo’s Rochester campus running through … Continue reading →

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What is the Death Zone?

May 21st, 2012 - 10:21 am

Another in our series on the science of the expedition, Dr. Jim McEachen, Mayo Clinic aerospace medicine fellow provides background [Editor's note: this was written before the most recent deaths]  In 1998, the popular PBS series Nova reported an ominous piece of data.  … Continue reading →

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Tragic news from Everest, but Team Begins Ascent

May 21st, 2012 - 10:16 am

At this writing the deaths of four climbers from various expeditions have been confirmed and a fifth climber remains missing on the upper levels of Mount Everest. The French news service lists the climbers as originating from China, Canada, South … Continue reading →

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Tales from Everest

May 20th, 2012 - 12:56 pm

We had the pleasure of sitting in on Edie Grossfield’s Post-Bulletin interview with Amine and Bryan. Some untold stories were told and a good deal of the team’s personality came through. The team is watching for news of the Everest ascent … Continue reading →

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High Altitude Pulmonary Edema

May 17th, 2012 - 2:45 pm

One in a series of articles on the science of the expedition, this by Doug Summerfield, M.D. and Bryan Taylor, Ph.D. One interesting, and potentially very dangerous, component of Mountain Sickness is the development of High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE). … Continue reading →

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Dispatch from the Field (5-10-12)

May 10th, 2012 - 8:47 am

From Joel Streed, Mayo Clinic News Network Today is a day of organizing and hopefully a little relaxing.  After bringing more than 600 kilos of equipment to Mount Everest Basecamp, it’s time to make sure everything gets back home.  So … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Climbers could help detect medical trends via devices

May 8th, 2012 - 6:25 pm

Followers of this Everest blog are now familiar with our team, including Dr. Amine Issa. One of his jobs on the expedition was to work with the monitoring devices on the climbers. Before he left for Nepal, he recorded the … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Game Testing for Everest Climbers

May 8th, 2012 - 6:12 pm

One of the tests the Mayo research team conducted on Mount Everest was a series of cognitive tests, in particular, the use of a video game to evaluate mental clarity. Altitude can easily impact a person’s thinking without them knowing … Continue reading →

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Two new audio reports from Everest

May 7th, 2012 - 3:48 pm

Correspondent Joel Streed is filing audio updates as the Mayo medical research team begins the descent from Mount Everest, the bulk of their scientific work in the field completed. Audio quality varies on these two reports — but given the … Continue reading →

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