Acute mountain sickness, dehydration, and bicarbonate clearance: preliminary field data from the Nepal Himalaya.

Thomas A. Cumbo, Buddha Basnyat, J. Graham, Andrés G. Lescano, Steven Gambert

PubMed · 2002 · 31 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Worsening altitude illness, indicated by increasing Lake Louise score, was associated with increasing measures of dehydration, hypoxemia, and urine acidity.