The Cost to the Central Nervous System of Climbing to Extremely High Altitude
- 21 December 1989
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 321 (25), 1714-1719
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198912213212505
Abstract
To assess the possibility that climbing to extremely high altitude may result in hypoxic injury to the brain, we performed neuropsychological and physiologic testing on 35 mountaineers before and 1 to 30 days after ascent to altitudes between 5488 and 8848 m, and on 6 subjects before and after simulation in an altitude chamber of a 40-day ascent to 8848 m.Keywords
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