Roach, Robert C; Hackett, Peter H; Oelz, Oswald; Bärtsch, Peter; Luks, Andrew M; MacInnis, Martin J; Baillie, J Kenneth (2018). The 2018 Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score. High altitude medicine & biology, 19(1), pp. 4-6. Mary Ann Liebert 10.1089/ham.2017.0164
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Roach, Robert C., Peter H. Hackett, Oswald Oelz, Peter Bärtsch, Andrew M. Luks, Martin J. MacInnis, J. Kenneth Baillie, and The Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee. The 2018 Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score. High Alt Med Biol 19:1-4, 2018.- The Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) scoring system has been a useful research tool since first published in 1991. Recent studies have shown that disturbed sleep at altitude, one of the five symptoms scored for AMS, is more likely due to altitude hypoxia per se, and is not closely related to AMS. To address this issue, and also to evaluate the Lake Louise AMS score in light of decades of experience, experts in high altitude research undertook to revise the score. We here present an international consensus statement resulting from online discussions and meetings at the International Society of Mountain Medicine World Congress in Bolzano, Italy, in May 2014 and at the International Hypoxia Symposium in Lake Louise, Canada, in February 2015. The consensus group has revised the score to eliminate disturbed sleep as a questionnaire item, and has updated instructions for use of the score.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > University Emergency Center |
ISSN: |
1527-0297 |
Publisher: |
Mary Ann Liebert |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Romana Saredi |
Date Deposited: |
20 Mar 2019 11:13 |
Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2019 00:48 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1089/ham.2017.0164 |
PubMed ID: |
29583031 |
Additional Information: |
Monika Brodmann Maeder is a member of The Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
AMS Lake Louise high altitude illness history symptom scores |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.128496 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/128496 |
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