Periodic breathing and oxygen supplementation in Chilean miners at high altitude (4200 m)

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 203, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-115

  Moraga, Fernando A ^a   Jiménez, Daniel ^b   Richalet, Jean Paul ^c   Vargas, Manuel ^d   Osorio, Jorge ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b Medicina de Altura Ltda   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^d Medicina Ingeniería en Salud Ocupacional   (Chile)

^e Fundación Vida Laboral   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia; High altitude; Mine workers; Oxygen supplementation; Periodic breathing; Sleep quality

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; APNEA INDEX; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CHILEAN; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOBARIC HYPOXIA; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MINER; OXYGEN BREATHING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP QUALITY; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANOXIA; BREATHING; CHILE; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CHILE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PERIODICITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84929939072     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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