Acute Mountain Sickness

Wayne L. Callen; John L. Perna; Clifford J. Field; Sherilyne J. King; Ross Greenlee; Herbert J. Goldings; Erik R. Swenson; Thomas H. Maren; Brent A. Blue; T. Scott Johnson; Paul B. Rock

doi:10.1056/NEJM198906013202212

Acute Mountain Sickness

Wayne L. Callen, John L. Perna, Clifford J. Field, Sherilyne J. King, Ross Greenlee, Herbert J. Goldings, Erik R. Swenson, Thomas H. Maren, Brent A. Blue, T. Scott Johnson, Paul B. Rock

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To the Editor: We would like to differ with Johnson and Rock (Sept. 29 issue)* in their statement that oxygen is a recommended but not clearly beneficial treatment for acute mountain sickness. We practice in Leadville, Colorado, at an altitude of 10,000 ft. This is the highest community in North America. We routinely treat many cases of acute mountain sickness during each season. Our clinical experience adds up to several hundred cases each. It is clearly beneficial to give people oxygen for acute mountain sickness. Both intermittent and continuous oxygen therapy relieve the symptoms of acute mountain sickness. It is…

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1492-1493
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	320
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198906013202212
State	Published - 1 Jun 1989

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