Children at high altitude: an international consensus statement by an ad hoc committee of the International Society for Mountain Medicine, March 12, 2001.

Peter Barry (ISMM and MedicalExpeditions, UK), Peter Ba rtsch (ISMM, Ger-many), Franz Berghold (ISMM and ASMAM,Austria), Rachel A. Bishop (ISMM and WMS,Nepal), Charles Clarke (UIAA Mountain Med-icine Data Centre and the British Moun-taineering Council, UK), Sundeep Dhillon (theMedical Cell of the Royal Geographical Soci-ety, UK), Thomas E. Dietz (WMS and ISMM,USA), Anthony Durmowicz (USA), Bruno Dur-rer (ISMM and UIAA Medical Commission,Switzerland), Marlowe Eldridge (USA), PeterHackett (ISMM and WMS, USA), DominiqueJean (France), Susi Kriemler (ISMM, Switzer-land), James A. Litch (ISMM and WMS, Nepal),David Murdoch (ISMM, New Zealand),Annabel Nickol (ISMM, Medical Expeditionsand the Medical Cell of the Royal Geographi-cal Society, UK), Jean-Paul Richalet (ISMM andARPE, France), Rob Roach (ISMM, USA),David R. Shlim (CIWEC clinic, Nepal), UrsWiget (IKAR, Switzerland), Michael Yaron(ISMM, USA), Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo, Sr.,Gustavo R. Zubieta-Calleja, Jr. (ISMM andHigh Altitude Pathology Institute, IPPA Clinic,Bolivia).

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