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Performance-Enhancing Drugs—Commentaries
Wilderness & Environmental MedicineVol. 23Issue 3p207–211Published in issue: September, 2012- Tracy A. Cushing
- Scott E. McIntosh
- Linda E. Keyes
- George W. Rodway
- Robert B. Schoene
- Buddha Basnyat
- Luanne Freer
Cited in Scopus: 5It is amidst a controversial and unusually dangerous climbing season on Mount Everest that we publish Dr Wagner's editorial “Medical and Sporting Ethics of High Altitude Mountaineering: The Use of Drugs and Supplemental Oxygen.” Certain pharmacologic agents have, for many years, been used to prevent acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), and high altitude cerebral edema (HACE), the latter 2 among the greatest medical threats to life for those engaged in mountaineering on 8000 m peaks.
