Assessment of high altitude tolerance in healthy individuals

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 287-295

  Bartsch P ^a   Grunig E ^a   Hohenhaus, E ^a   Dehnert, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; High altitude pulmonary edema; Prediction of high altitude tolerance; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; NIFEDIPINE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CONSULTATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0034926508     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702901750265378     Document Type: Article

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