Complications of steroid use on Mt Everest

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 345-348

  Subedi, Bishnu Hari ^a   Pokharel, Jhapindra ^a   Goodman, Torrey L ^c   Amatya, Sanuraja ^a   Freer, Luanne ^c   Banskota, Nalin ^a   Johnson, Eric ^c   Basnyat, Buddha ^b  

^a NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

^b PATAN HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^c Himalyan Rescue Association   (Nepal)

Author keywords

acute adrenal crisis; AMS; dexamethasone; HACE; HAPE; steroid toxicity

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONFUSION; DRUG TOXICITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEPAL; PANIC; RASH;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CONFUSION; DRUG TOXICITY; EXANTHEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEPAL; PANIC DISORDER; STEROIDS;

EID: 78650320138     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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