Citation

Luks AM, McIntosh SE, Grissom CK, Auerbach PS, Rodway GW, Schoene RB, Zafren K, Hackett PH. Wilderness Environ. Med. 2014; 25(4 Suppl): S4-S14.

Affiliation

Division of Emergency Medicine, Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora and the Institute for Altitude Medicine, Telluride, CO (Dr Hackett).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.wem.2014.06.017

PMID

25498261

Abstract

To provide guidance to clinicians about best practices, the Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for prevention and treatment of acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema, and high altitude pulmonary edema. These guidelines present the main prophylactic and therapeutic modalities for each disorder and provide recommendations about their role in disease management. Recommendations are graded based on the quality of supporting evidence and balance between the benefits and risks/burdens according to criteria put forth by the American College of Chest Physicians. The guidelines also provide suggested approaches to prevention and management of each disorder that incorporate these recommendations. This is an updated version of the original WMS Consensus Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2010;21(2):146-155.

Language: en