Prediction of acute mountain sickness by monitoring arterial oxygen saturation during ascent

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-332

  Karinen, Heikki M ^a,b   Peltonen, Juha E ^b   Kähönen, Mika ^a   Tikkanen, Heikki O ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

altitude illness; exercise; high altitude; mountaineering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLIMBING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAKE LOUISE QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REST;

EID: 78650790698     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1060     Document Type: Article

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