Chapter-14 Fitness to Travel at High Altitude
BOOK TITLE: Pulmonary Function Tests
Author
1. Shah Jayant R
ISBN
9788184484830
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/10688_14
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2009
Pages
6
Author Affiliations
1.
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Chapter keywords
Fitness to travel at high altitude,
The flight environment,
Physiological effects of exposure to altitude,
Clinical pre-flight assessment,
Predicting hypoxia from equations,
Equations for predicting hypoxia,
Correlation between SaO2 and PaO2