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Altitude-Induced Decompression Sickness

2010
Decompression sickness (DCS) describes a condition characterized by a variety of symptoms resulting from exposure to low barometric pressures that cause inert gases (mainly nitrogen), normally dissolved in body fluids and tissues, to come out of physical solution and form bubbles.
Melchor J. Antuqano, J. R. Brown
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Prevention, assessment and management of altitude sickness

International Paramedic Practice, 2013
With the growing prevalence of adventure holidays and international travel, exposure to the extremes of altitude is becoming more and more common. With this increase in adventure travel the need for expedition medics is expanding, although education in this area is understandably lacking from most medical and allied health professional core training ...
Tom Mallinson, Georgette Eaton
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Medicine and Mechanisms in Altitude Sickness

Sports Medicine, 1995
Acute mountain sickness (AMS) has long been recognised as a potentially life-threatening condition afflicting otherwise healthy normal individuals who ascend rapidly to high altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) in the air is reduce. The symptoms of AMS (e.g.
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General introduction to altitude adaptation and mountain sickness

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2008
The key elements in acclimatization aim at securing the oxygen supply to tissues and organs of the body with an optimal oxygen tension of the arterial blood. In acute exposure, ventilation and heart rate are elevated with a minimum reduction in stroke volume.
Bartsch, P., Saltin, B.
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Travel consultations: Altitude sickness

Practice Management, 2017
Catherine Brewer takes a look at the travel consultation for travel to high altitude, examining the effect altitude can have on the traveller and highlighting other health concerns that should be discussed with clients
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Trekking and high altitude illness

Therapeutische Umschau, 2001
Jeder zweite Trecker oder Bergsteiger, der rasch (> 300 m/Tag) auf Höhen über 4000 m steigt, hat nach 6 bis 12 Stunden Symptome der Höhenkrankheit. Wir unterscheiden zwei Formen der Höhenkrankheit: die akute Bergkrankheit und das Höhenlungenödem.
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Sickness at high altitude: a literature review

Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 2002
When some individuals spend just a few hours at low atmospheric pressure above 1,500 m (5,000 ft) - such as when climbing a mountain or flying in a plane at high altitude - they become ill. Altitude sickness studies originally concentrated on life-threatening illnesses which beset determined and athletic climbers at extreme altitudes. In recent years,
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Neurological Conditions at Altitude That Fall Outside the Usual Definition of Altitude Sickness

High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2004
Altitude sickness in its commonly recognized forms consists of acute mountain sickness and the two life-threatening forms, high altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema. Less well known are other conditions, chiefly neurological, that may arise completely outside the usual definition of altitude sickness.
Jeffrey H. Gertsch, Buddha Basnyat, Tianyi Wu   +2 more
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Altitude sickness.

BMJ clinical evidence, 2005
Up to half of people who ascend to heights above 2500 m may develop acute mountain sickness, pulmonary oedema, or cerebral oedema, with the risk being greater at higher altitudes, and with faster rates of ascent.We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical questions: What are the effects of interventions to prevent, and ...
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Decompression Sickness Following Altitude-Chamber Training

Journal of Special Operations Medicine, 2015
Decompression sickness (DCS) is one of several dysbarisms (medical conditions resulting from a change in atmospheric pressure) that can be encountered by the Special Operations Forces (SOF) medical provider. DCS can present with several different manifestations.
Nicholas M, Studer, John R, Hughes, Joseph, Puskar   +2 more
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