Journal Club

MMSN is basically an academic body. Discussing high altitude literature and recent advances is one of its top priorities. For the same, we have been conducting a journal club on regular basis. This happens in the academic building of Maharajgunj Campus, every first Wednesday of the English month at 4pm . This has helped the members to get acquainted with the basics of mountain medicine.

Archives
•  3 rd of December 2003, Wednesday
Disoriented and ataxic pilgrims: an epidemiological study of acute mountain sickness and high-altitude cerebral edema at a sacred lake at 4300m in the Nepal Himalayas.
Buddha Basnyat, Dharma Subedi, Joe Lemaster, Govind Bashyal, Balaram Aryal, Nabaraj Subedi (Wilderness and environmental medicine, 11, 89-93(2000))

•  7 th of January 2004, Wednesday
The incidence, importance and prophylaxis of acute mountain sickness. Peter H. Hackett, Drummond Rennie (Lancet, 1976:2:1149-54)

•  1 st of February 2004, Wednesday

Next journal club

Should we make it on the 1 st Wednesday of September? Dr. Ramesh Subedi has the materials ready. Efficacy of low dose acetazolamide (125mg BID) for the prophylaxis of acute mountain Sickness: a prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo- controlled trial. Buddha Basnyat, Jeffrey H. Gertsch, E. William Johnson, Franco Castro-Marin, Yoshio Inoue and Clement Yeh
(High altitude medicine and biology, Vol 4, Number 1, 2003)