Prediction of the susceptibility to AMS in simulated altitude

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-108

  Burtscher, Martin ^a   Szubski, Christoph ^a   Faulhaber, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness (AMS); Hypoxic ventilatory response; Intermittent hypoxia; Mountaineering; Prediction; Simulated altitude; Trekking

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDLINE; MOUNTAINEERING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; EXERCISE; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERVENTILATION; LACTIC ACID; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 41749083991     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-007-0131-0     Document Type: Review

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