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Ascent rate and the Lake Louise scoring system: An analysis of one year of emergency ward entries for high-altitude sickness at the Mustang district hospital, Nepal

More travellers are making swift ascents to higher altitudes without sufficient acclimatization or pharmaceutical prophylaxis as road connectivity develops in the Himalayan region of Nepal. Our study connects ascent rate with prevalence and severity of acute mountain sickness (AMS) among patients ad...

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Autores principales: Poudel, Kapil Madi, Poudel, Tika Ram, Shah, Neha, Bhandari, Sunita, Sharma, Ramakanta, Timilsina, Anil, Prakash, Manab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9612449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36301827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276901