Have you ever heard of ski sickness? This little-known condition is akin to motion sickness and seasickness. Here’s what we ...

Objectives: To compare a range of physiological responses to acute sea level hypoxia at simulated altitudes with the same physiological responses and acute mountain sickness (AMS) scores measured at ...

Ideally, you’d like to have a better sense of the risk factors and warning signs that signal the difference between run-on-the-hill acute mountain sickness and more severe forms of altitude illness ...

alumni.ubc.ca Purpose The goal of this meta-analysis was to determine the clinical utility of acute mountain sickness (AMS) history to predict future incidents of AMS. Method 17 studies (n=7921 ...

Ideally, you’d like to have a better sense of the risk factors and warning signs that signal the difference between run-on-the-hill acute mountain sickness and more severe forms of altitude ...

In these high-altitude, low-oxygen environments, climbers are at significant risk of acute mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary oedema, and high-altitude cerebral oedema. Acute mountain ...

Elsa Laksono passed away while descending from the summit of Carstensz Pyramid due to indications of acute mountain sickness (AMS) or hypothermia. The victim was evacuated to the Mimika General ...

JAKARTA: The bodies of female climbers Elsa Laksono and Lilie Wijayanti Poegiono, both 59, who died on Saturday (March 1) due to acute mountain sickness while descending Puncak Jaya in Mimika ...