Pulse oximetry at high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-119

  Luks, Andrew M ^a,b   Swenson, Erik R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; high altitude; high altitude cerebral edema; high altitude pulmonary edema; hypoxemia; pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; OXYGEN TENSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; PULSE OXIMETRY;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BRAIN EDEMA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; OXIMETRY;

EID: 79959865022     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2011.0013     Document Type: Article

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