Mountaineering oxygen mask performance at 4572 m

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 11 I, 2000, Pages 1142-1147

  Hendricks, D M ^a   Pollock, N W ^a   Natoli, M J ^a   Vann, R D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Arterial oxygen saturation; Masks; Mountaineering; Oxygen; Pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DEVICE; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MASK; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN SATURATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0033752933     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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