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Altitude illness guidelines for health care providers
Wilderness Medical Society Consensus Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness
To provide guidance to clinicians about best practices, the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS)
convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of
acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude cerebral edema (HACE), and high altitude pulmonary
edema (HAPE). These guidelines present the main prophylactic and therapeutic modalities for each
disorder and provide recommendations for their roles 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 the prevention and management of each disorder that incorporate these
recommendations.
Complete altitude illness treatment and prevention for health care providers consensus guidelines are available here:
http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/1080-6032/PIIS1080603210001146.pdf
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