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  • Title: Altitude sickness.
    Author: McDonnell L.
    Journal: Aust Fam Physician; 1990 Feb; 19(2):205, 208-10. PubMed ID: 2322186.
    Abstract:
    Altitude sickness is a clinical syndrome that occurs with abrupt ascents to altitudes of 3000 metres and above. Symptoms include headache, malaise, fatigue, dizziness, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, and oliguria. At higher altitudes more severe illness resulting from pulmonary oedema or cerebral oedema can occur.
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