Oximetry fails to predict acute mountain sickness or summit success during a rapid ascent to 5640 meters

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-121

  Wagner, Dale R ^a   Knott, Jonathan R ^a   Fry, Jack P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMS; arterial oxygen saturation; heart rate; high altitude; hypoxia; mountaineering

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84861735374     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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