Ricardo Arregui Calvo (born 19 September 1952) is a neurosurgeon doctor, frostbite specialist and former president of CAI Balonmano Aragón and Asobal Handball League.
Career edit
After studying Medicine at the University of Zaragoza,[when?] Arregui researched Mountain Medicine[1] at the Frostbite Unit at Hospital Clínico Universitario "Lozano Blesa", and later 2000 in Clinica MAZ.[2]
He became the official doctor of the Al filo de lo imposible TV documentary series[when?] for which went on expeditions to Mount Everest (year 1992) and the North Pole (year 2000). After the Mount Everest expedition, Arregui wrote a scientific and personal journal: "El quirófano del hielo: del bisturí al Everest".[3]
Spanish mountaineers Edurne Pasaban,[4] Juanito Oiarzabal[5] and Alberto Iñurrategi have been treated by Arregui, as have Ecuadorian, Ivan Vallejo, and Juanjo San Sebastian who lost fingers and toes through frostbite.[6]
Besides his medical career, Arregui was from 2003 to 2008 president of CAI Balonmano Aragón handball team that played for the EHF Cup and the Asobal League.[7] He also was president of Asobal League (2006–2007).[8]
External links edit
- Arregui's research: elpais.com, retrieved 22.Feb 2011.
- aragondigital.es, retrieved 22.Feb 20
References edit
- ^ Del hospital al Everest (Spanish)
- ^ Neurosurgery MAZ Members (Spanish)
- ^ El quirófano del hielo: del bisturí al Everest (Spanish)
- ^ Edurne Pasaban, de revisión en la MAZ (Spanish) Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "El doctor Ricardo Arregui no descarta la intervención quirúrjica en el caso de Juan Oiarzábal" (in Spanish). 31 July 2004. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
- ^ "La larga lista de los alpinistas españoles muertos" (in Spanish). RTVE. 29 April 2010.
- ^ LAHOZ, RAÚL (24 May 2008). "Punto final a la era Arregui" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 July 2011.
- ^ Arregui deja la presidencia de Asobal (Spanish)