Pulse oximetry and predicting acute mountain sickness: Are we asking the right questions?

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 112-113

  Windsor, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84861730025     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2012.03.001     Document Type: Editorial

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