Revisión sobre el uso del mate de hoja de coca en la prevención del mal agudo de montaña.

Salinas-Piélago, Joel E

doi:10.20453/rnp.v79i3.2922

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“…Although acetazolamide is the most commonly used preventive medication, [25][26][27][28] only a small fraction (5%) of the medical students identified acetazolamide as such, and only 2 respondents reported using it properly. A previous study reported that only 9% of tourists knew about acetazolamide as a preventive measure.…”

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Poor Knowledge of Acute Mountain Sickness in Latin American Medical Students

Alarcón

Huayanay

Monge

2022

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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Introduction-Acute altitude exposure is a common event in Latin America that can result in mild to severe altitude illness. Medical students from some Latin American countries receive little information on this topic. Our aim was to determine the knowledge and incidence of acute mountain sickness (AMS), as well as the methods used to prevent AMS among medical students attending the Pan-American Student Meeting in Cusco, Peru, a city at high altitude (3400 m).Methods-We conducted a cross-sectional study on medical students attending a conference. Participants completed a questionnaire on the day of registration that collected demographic data and investigated students' knowledge of AMS, its prophylaxis, and their personal experience of symptoms.Results-A total of 840 students attended the meeting. Two hundred eighty-eight returned surveys, 51 from high altitude locations. Respondent age was 23±3 y (mean±SD), and 72% were female. Thirtytwo percent had basic knowledge about symptoms of AMS. Headache was recognized as a symptom by 79%. Knowledge of AMS prophylaxis was reported by 70%. Coca leaf products and dimenhydrinate were mentioned by 30 and 16%, respectively, whereas acetazolamide was recognized by only 10% of participants. AMS incidence was 42%. Prophylactic measures were adopted by 47% of the participants in our study. Thirty-six percent used dimenhydrinate and 27% used coca tea. Less than 1% used acetazolamide as recommended.Conclusions-We found poor knowledge of AMS and effective prophylaxis among medical students from several South American countries traveling to 3400 m.

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Poor Knowledge of Acute Mountain Sickness in Latin American Medical Students

Alarcón

Huayanay

Monge

2022

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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“…It is, of course, easy to criticise the shortcomings of research on coca and its physiological effect on humans in earlier times considering the changing worldviews, personal motivations, differing perceptions, and often crude research methods with basic equipment. Relating to the use of coca to prevent AMS in travellers, the lack of efficacy studies has been noted [6, 19, 20, 143]. However, to then conclude that coca ‘does not work’ is premature since we do not know, precisely because there are no such studies.…”

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Travel medicine, coca and cocaine: demystifying and rehabilitating Erythroxylum – a comprehensive review

Bauer

2019

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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Few travel health measures are as controversial as the use of coca leaves at high altitude; yet, there appears widespread ignorance among health professionals and the general public about coca, its origins as well as its interesting and often flamboyant history. Equally, the cultural and traditional significance to Andean people is not recognised. The coca leaves contain many alkaloids, one of which, cocaine, has gained notoriety as a narcotic, leading to the mistaken idea that coca equals cocaine. This article contrasts coca with cocaine in an attempt to explain the differences but also the reasons for this widespread misconception. By its very nature, there may never be scientific ‘proof’ that coca leaves do or do not work for travellers at altitude, but at least a solid knowledge of coca, and how it differs from cocaine, provides a platform for informed opinions and appropriate critical views on the current confusing and contradictory legal situation.

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Neural Networks for Tea Leaf Classification

Silva

Palma

Núñez

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J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The process of classification of the raw material, is one of the most important procedures in any tea dryer, being responsible for ensuring a good quality of the final product. Currently, this process in most tea processing companies is usually handled by an expert, who performs the work manually and at his own discretion, which has a number of associated drawbacks. In this work, a solution is proposed that includes the planting, design, development and testing of a prototype that is able to correctly classify photographs corresponding to samples of raw material arrived at a dryer, using intelligence techniques (IA) type supervised for Classification by Artificial Neural Networks and not supervised with K-means Grouping for class preparation. The prototype performed well and is a reliable tool for classifying the raw material slammed into tea dryers.

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Revisión sobre el uso del mate de hoja de coca en la prevención del mal agudo de montaña.

Cited by 3 publications

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Poor Knowledge of Acute Mountain Sickness in Latin American Medical Students

Poor Knowledge of Acute Mountain Sickness in Latin American Medical Students

Travel medicine, coca and cocaine: demystifying and rehabilitating Erythroxylum – a comprehensive review

Neural Networks for Tea Leaf Classification

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