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High-altitude Illnesses and Air Travel
- Source :
- Pediatric Clinics of North America. 68:305-319
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Healthy children may present acute mountain sickness (AMS) within a few hours after arrival at high altitudes. In few cases, serious complications may occur, including high-altitude pulmonary edema and rarely high-altitude cerebral edema. Those with preexisting conditions especially involving hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension shall not risk travelling to high altitudes. Newborn from low altitude mothers may have prolonged time to complete postnatal adaptation. The number of children and adolescents traveling on commercial aircrafts is growing, and this poses a need for their treating physicians to be aware of the potential risks of hypoxia while air traveling.
- Subjects :
- Low altitude
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Hypoxia (medical)
Effects of high altitude on humans
medicine.disease
Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary hypertension
Preexisting Conditions
Cerebral edema
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
Internal medicine
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
medicine
Cardiology
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
business
human activities
Air travel
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00313955
- Volume :
- 68
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Clinics of North America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........71f90a3620ea11d04cc25535e6bfed62