Acute mountain sickness, arterial oxygen saturation and heart rate among Tibetan students who reascend to Lhasa after 7 years at low altitude: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
, 2017 Gonggalanzi +5 more
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AltitudeOmics: The Integrative Physiology of Human Acclimatization to Hypobaric Hypoxia and Its Retention upon Reascent. [PDF]
, 2014 An understanding of human responses to hypoxia is important for the health of millions of people worldwide who visit, live, or work in the hypoxic environment encountered at high altitudes. In spite of dozens of studies over the last 100 years, the basic
Bourdillon, N. +24 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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Do acute mountain sickness and psychiatric disorders show overlapping symptoms?
Current Issues in Sport ScienceThe Lake Louise Score (LLS) is a common tool for diagnosing acute mountain sickness (AMS) after a recent gain in altitude. Required symptoms (headache, dizziness, fatigue or gastrointestinal symptoms) are unspecific, subjective and not detectable by ...
Florian Lukas Schipplick +14 more
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Anuric Acute Kidney Injury Induced by Acute Mountain Sickness Prophylaxis With Acetazolamide
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2014 Acetazolamide (ACZ) is a sulfonamide derivative that inhibits carbonic anhydrase and is the mainstay for prevention and treatment of acute mountain sickness (AMS).
Javier A. Neyra MD +2 more
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57 Rhodiola Crenulata Extract Prophylaxis for Acute Mountain Sickness: A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Crossover Trial [PDF]
, 2012 Te‐Fa Chiu +6 more
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Low Stroke Volume Index in Healthy Young Men Is Associated with the Incidence of Acute Mountain Sickness after an Ascent by Airplane: A Case‐Control Study [PDF]
, 2020 Jingbin Ke +10 more
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Acute Mountain Sickness: Controversies and Advances
High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2004 This review discusses the impact of recent publications on pathophysiologic concepts and on practical aspects of acute mountain sickness (AMS). Magnetic resonance imaging studies do not provide evidence of total brain volume increase nor edema within the first 6 to 10 h of exposure to hypoxia despite symptoms of AMS.
Bartsch, P. +4 more
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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