Transient neurological disorders during a simulated ascent of Mount Everest

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1224-1229

  Cauchy, Emmanuel ^a   Larmignat, Philippe ^b,d   Boussuges, Alain ^c   Le Roux, Geneviève ^d   Charniot, Jean Christophe ^d   Dumas, Jean Luc ^d   Richalet, Jean Paul ^b,d  

^a Hopital de Chamonix   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^d AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Embolism; Hypoxia; Migraine; Neurology; Operation Everest III

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; GAS EMBOLISM; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOCAPNIA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0036894557     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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