Symptomatology and therapy of acute mountain sickness;Klinik und therapie der akuten hohenkrankheit

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 150, Issue 8-9, 2000, Pages 169-174

  Berghold, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; High altitude cerebral edema; High altitude medicine; High altitude pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; NIFEDIPINE; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; REST; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; BRAIN EDEMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEADACHE; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PULMONARY EDEMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033915803     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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