Testing individual risk of acute mountain sickness at greater altitudes

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 363-369

  Tannheimer, Markus ^a   Albertini, Nadine ^b   Ulmer, Hans V ^b   Thomas, Alfred ^c   Engelhardt, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Roland ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHRKRANKENHAUS ULM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHRZENTRALKRANKENHAUS KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; SOLDIER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651209051     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-01-3308     Document Type: Article

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