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4.7 Health
Antarctic expeditioners face an array of health risks, in addition to the normal 'everyday' health issues that they experience.
Dr Lloyd performing a monthly medical Photo: T. Taylor
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- Have students research the main health risks that expeditioners face (hypothermia, frostbite, broken limbs, carbon monoxide poisoning, snow blindness, depression and low resistance to infection from new arrivals), and report to the class how they can be avoided, and how they can treated.
See basic information on health care in the Antarctic Role play a medivac (medical evacuation) of a seriously
injured expeditioner from Antarctica, or a medical
operation in Antarctica. - Read about the experiences of a doctor in Antarctica in the expeditioner profiles.