Pilot Survey: Acclimatization Practices of High-Altitude Recreationalists

• Main Author: Rozier, Leslie H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah 2013
• Subjects: Advanced Practice Nursing; Education; Nursing; Graduate; Acclimatization; Altitude Sickness; Anoxia; Brain Edema; Pulmonary Edema; Antarctic Regions; Pilot Projects; Recreation; Wilderness Medicine; Acute Mountain Sickness; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; Polar Plateau; South Pole; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tq8zq7

Acute mountain sickness (AMS) will occur if ascent to high altitude is rapid. Any type of travel to altitudes around 2,500 meters (8,000 feet) is associated with an increased risk of developing AMS. AMS symptoms include fatigue, headache, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, weakness, tachycardia, dizzi...