Hawaii high altitude study: high altitude sleeping system, letters to the editor

Author:

Shupp, Aaron M.

Title:

Hawaii high altitude study: high altitude sleeping system, letters to the editor

Periodical:

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Year:

2004

Volume:

15

Pages:

154-156

Subject:

High altitude physiology Sleep Acute mountain sickness (AMS)

Summary:

This report includes data that was collected on a high altitude sleeping system that began development in 1998 in a Biological Altitude Testing Laboratory at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The purpose of this device was to improve the conditions, under which a climber may sleep or rest, by delivering warmed, humidified air with slightly increased carbon dioxide levels. It was felt that as this device would prevent heat loss, dehydration, and altitude-induced central sleep apnea, that this would enable one to become better acclimated to the altitude which would result in an overall enhanced work performance at altitude. As a result, in cooperation with the Office of Mauna Kea Management and the Rangers of Mauna Kea, a study took place on the summit of Mauna Kea, (that is approximately 13700 feet above sea level), on the Island of Hawaii. This study involved a nonacclimatized 67 year-old man who was tested while sleeping or resting with or without the high altitude sleeping device.

Label:

Altitude Mountain Sickness (AMS)

URL:

http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1580/1080-6032(2004)015%5B0155:HHASHA%5D2.0.CO;2

Date:

June 2004

Collection:

Periodicals