Ataxia in acute mountain sickness does not improve with short-term oxygen inhalation

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-287

  Baumgartner, Ralf W ^a   Bärtsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitude illness; Ataxia; Hypoxia; Oxygen; Posturography

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATAXIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036744761     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702902320604269     Document Type: Article

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