The 2018 Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score

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serval:BIB_6E2035F4C3DD
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Publications
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Title
The 2018 Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score
Journal
High altitude medicine & biology
Author(s)
Roach R.C., Hackett P.H., Oelz O., Bärtsch P., Luks A.M., MacInnis M.J., Baillie J.K.
Working group(s)
Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee
Contributor(s)
Achatz E., Albert E., Andrews J.S., Anholm J.D., Ashraf M.Z., Auerbach P., Basnyat B., Beidleman B.A., Berendsen R.R., Berger M.M., Bloch K.E., Brugger H., Cogo A., Costa R.G., Cumpstey A., Cymerman A., Debevec T., Duncan C., Dubowitz D., Fago A., Furian M., Gaidica M., Ganguli P., Grocott MPW, Hammer D., Hall D., Hillebrandt D., Hilty M.P., Himashree G., Honigman B., Gilbert-Kawai N., Kayser B., Keyes L., Koehle M., Kohli S., Kuenzel A., Levine B.D., Lichtblau M., Macdonald J., Maeder M.B., Maggiorini M., Martin D., Masuyama S., McCall J., McIntosh S., Millet G., Moraga F., Mounsey C., Muza S.R., Oliver S., Pasha Q., Paterson R., Phillips L., Pichon A., Pickerodt P.A., Pun M., Rain M., Rennie D., Ri-Li G., Roy S., Verges S., Dos Santos TBC, Schoene R.B., Schoch O.D., Singh S., Sooronbaev T., Steinback C.D., Stembridge M., Stewart G., Stobdan T., Strapazzon G., Subudhi A.W., Swenson E., Roger Thompson A.A., van Patot M.T., Twomey R., Ulrich S., Voituron N., Wagner D.R., Wang S.H., West J.B., Wilkes M., Willmann G., Yaron M., Zafren K.
ISSN
1557-8682 (Online)
ISSN-L
1527-0297
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
19
Number
1
Pages
4-6
Language
english
Abstract
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.
Keywords
AMS, Lake Louise, high altitude illness, history, symptom scores
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Create date
15/10/2018 8:40
Last modification date
20/08/2019 14:27
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