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The 2018 lake louise acute mountain sickness score

The 2018 lake louise acute mountain sickness score
The 2018 lake louise acute mountain sickness score

The Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) scoring system has been a useful research tool since first published in 1991. Recent studies have shown that disturbed sleep at altitude, one of the five symptoms scored for AMS, is more likely due to altitude hypoxia per se, and is not closely related to AMS. To address this issue, and also to evaluate the Lake Louise AMS score in light of decades of experience, experts in high altitude research undertook to revise the score. We here present an international consensus statement resulting from online discussions and meetings at the International Society of Mountain Medicine World Congress in Bolzano, Italy, in May 2014 and at the International Hypoxia Symposium in Lake Louise, Canada, in February 2015. The consensus group has revised the score to eliminate disturbed sleep as a questionnaire item, and has updated instructions for use of the score.

AMS, high altitude illness, history, Lake Louise, symptom scores
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The Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee (2018) The 2018 lake louise acute mountain sickness score. High Altitude Medicine and Biology, 19 (1), 4-6. (doi:10.1089/ham.2017.0164).

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Abstract

The Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) scoring system has been a useful research tool since first published in 1991. Recent studies have shown that disturbed sleep at altitude, one of the five symptoms scored for AMS, is more likely due to altitude hypoxia per se, and is not closely related to AMS. To address this issue, and also to evaluate the Lake Louise AMS score in light of decades of experience, experts in high altitude research undertook to revise the score. We here present an international consensus statement resulting from online discussions and meetings at the International Society of Mountain Medicine World Congress in Bolzano, Italy, in May 2014 and at the International Hypoxia Symposium in Lake Louise, Canada, in February 2015. The consensus group has revised the score to eliminate disturbed sleep as a questionnaire item, and has updated instructions for use of the score.

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Published date: 1 March 2018
Keywords: AMS, high altitude illness, history, Lake Louise, symptom scores

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Local EPrints ID: 443454
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443454
DOI: doi:10.1089/ham.2017.0164
ISSN: 1527-0297
PURE UUID: c5e76c03-df75-4417-9f88-03bd07bc5db1
ORCID for Michael P.W. Grocott: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-7581
ORCID for Andrew Cumpstey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6257-207X

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Date deposited: 26 Aug 2020 16:34
Last modified: 13 Dec 2024 03:05

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Author: Robert C. Roach
Author: Peter H. Hackett
Author: Oswald Oelz
Author: Peter Bärtsch
Author: Andrew M. Luks
Author: Martin J. MacInnis
Author: J. Kenneth Baillie
Author: Eric Achatz
Author: Edi Albert
Author: Ken Zafren
Author: Michael Yaron
Author: Gabriel Willmann
Author: Matt Wilkes
Author: John B. West
Author: Shih Hao Wang
Author: Dale R. Wagner
Author: Nicolas Voituron
Author: Silvia Ulrich
Author: Rosie Twomey
Author: Martha Tissot Van Patot
Author: A. A.Roger Thompson
Author: Erik Swenson
Author: Andrew W. Subudhi
Author: Giacomo Strapazzon
Author: Tsering Stobdan
Author: Glenn Stewart
Author: Mike Stembridge
Author: Craig D. Steinback
Author: Talant Sooronbaev
Author: Surinderpal Singh
Author: Otto D. Schoch
Author: Robert B. Schoene
Author: Tatiana Batalha Cunha Dos Santos
Author: Samuel Verges
Author: Steven Roy
Author: Ge Ri Li
Author: Drummond Rennie
Author: Manjari Rain
Author: Matiram Pun
Author: Philipp A. Pickerodt
Author: Aurélien Pichon
Author: Lara Phillips
Author: Ryan Paterson
Author: Qadar Pasha
Author: Samuel Oliver
Author: Stephen R. Muza
Author: Craig Mounsey
Author: Fernando Moraga
Author: Michael P.W. Grocott ORCID iD
Author: Andrew Cumpstey ORCID iD
Corporate Author: The Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee

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