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      Wilderness Medical Society practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of acute altitude illness: 2014 update.

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          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.

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          Journal
          Wilderness Environ Med
          Wilderness & environmental medicine
          1545-1534
          1080-6032
          Dec 2014
          : 25
          : 4 Suppl
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Drs Luks and Schoene). Electronic address: aluks@u.washington.edu.
          [2 ] Divisions of Emergency Medicine (Dr McIntosh).
          [3 ] Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Dr Grissom).
          [4 ] Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (Drs Auerbach and Zafren).
          [5 ] Division of Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (Dr Rodway).
          [6 ] Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Drs Luks and Schoene); East Bay Regional Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Associates, Berkeley, CA (Dr Schoene).
          [7 ] Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (Drs Auerbach and Zafren); Himalayan Rescue Association, Kathmandu, Nepal (Dr Zafren).
          [8 ] Division of Emergency Medicine, Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora and the Institute for Altitude Medicine, Telluride, CO (Dr Hackett).
          Article
          S1080-6032(14)00257-9
          10.1016/j.wem.2014.06.017
          25498261
          24127e56-20e0-4b96-8e60-37931d02404c
          Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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