HOUSTON, Charles Snead (1913 – 2009)
1913 – 2009
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1960 CE
#12996
Acute pulmonary edema of high altitude.
Houston described four individuals who developed "edema of the lungs" as a result of high elevation activities. "He described chest X-rays with edema and non-specific changes on EKG. Even though these cases had been t…
1987 CE
#12997
Operation Everest II: Man at extreme altitude.
In 1985 Houston, Sutton and Cymerman and colleagues in Canada used a decompression chamber to simulate a seven week ascent of Mt. Everest. This appears to be their first paper summarizing the overall results. Many pub…