ABSTRACT
Very little information exists to assist medical practitioners in advising their patients with medical problems who are traveling to high altitude for recreation or work. The deficiency in guidelines is largely secondary to the dearth of clinical studies which have been carried out to provide assistance to both physicians and patients. This area of clinical research is a fertile one for investigators in the future who should be able to provide physicians with data from which sound advice and protocols for adventuring patients to follow can be drawn.
