Children at high altitude: an international consensus statement by an Ad Hoc committee of the International Society for Mountain Medicine, March 12, 2001

Author:: 19 co-authors,, Barry, Peter, Bartsch, Peter, Berghold, Franz, Bishop, Rachel A., Niermeyer, Susan, Pollard, Andrew J.
Title:: Children at high altitude: an international consensus statement by an Ad Hoc committee of the International Society for Mountain Medicine, March 12, 2001
Periodical:: High Altitude Medicine & Biology
Year:: 2001
Volume:: 2
Pages:: 389-403
Subject:: Acute mountain sickness (AMS) Altitude influence of children
Summary:: This is an international consensus statement of an ad hoc committee formed by the International Society for Mountain Medicine at the Jasper Park Hypoxia Symposium 2001 and represents the committee’s interpretation of the current position with regard to children at high altitude. This statement is to offer information for clinicians providing advice concerning altitude travel in the pediatric population.
Label:: Altitude Mountain Sickness (AMS)
URL:: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11682018/
Date:: 2001
Collection:: Periodicals