Use of the Gamow Bag by EMT-basic park rangers for treatment of high-altitude pulmonary edema and high-altitude cerebral edema

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 198-201

  Freeman, Kimberly ^a   Shalit, Marc ^b   Stroh, Geoffrey ^b   Snowden, Brandy D ^b  

^a University Medical Center Fresno   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Altitude sickness; EMT basic; HACE; HAPE; Hyperbaric; National park

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; FEMALE; FIRST AID; GAMOW BAG; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; LUNG EDEMA; RECREATION;

EID: 4544311659     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2004)15[198:UOTGBB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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