Carbon monoxide exposure from cooking in snow caves at high altitude

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 208-212

  Keyes, Linda E ^a   Hamilton, Robert S ^b   Rose, John S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Carbon monoxide; Carboxyhemoglobin; Environmental exposure; Heating; High altitude; Mountaineering

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; SNOW;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; WINTER;

EID: 0034847974     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2001)012[0208:CMEFCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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