Children at altitude

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 138-141

  Neumann, Karl ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; NIFEDIPINE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRAIN EDEMA; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; EPILEPSY; EXERCISE; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LUNG DISEASE; OXYGEN THERAPY; POLLAKISURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SKIN TINGLING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; TASTE DISORDER; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 33846820033     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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