Acute mountain sickness, dehydration, and bicarbonate clearance: Preliminary field data from the Nepal Himalaya

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 898-901

  Cumbo, Thomas Anthony ^a   Basnyat, B ^a   Graham, J ^a   Lescano, A G ^a   Gambert, S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Kidney; Oxygen saturation; Urine

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE;

ACIDURIA; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC BALANCE; NEPAL; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; RELATIVE DENSITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SODIUM ABSORPTION; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE PH; WATER ABSORPTION;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCAPNIA; MALE; OXIMETRY; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; URINE;

EID: 0036714579     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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