Prediction of acute mountain sickness by pulse oximetry: What are the right questions?

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 377-378

  Zafren, Ken ^a,b,c  

^a Himalayan Rescue Association   (Nepal)

^b ALASKA NATIVE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; OXIMETRY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HUMANS; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN;

EID: 84869501706     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2012.07.002     Document Type: Letter

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