Pulse oximetry after 6-minute walk test and summit success on Kilimanjaro

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-96

  Daniels, Rob ^a  

^a Townsend House Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KENYA; LETTER; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; WALKING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KENYA; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; WALKING;

EID: 84858709246     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2011.09.009     Document Type: Letter

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