Do lung disease patients need supplemental oxygen at high altitude?

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 321-327

  Luks, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cystic fibrosis; High altitude; Hypoxemia; Restrictive lung disease; Supplemental oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FLIGHT; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG DISEASE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGENATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TRAVEL;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TRAVEL;

EID: 77049086330     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1051     Document Type: Review

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