Do acute mountain sickness and psychiatric disorders show overlapping symptoms?

• Main Authors: Florian Lukas Schipplick (Author), Rajesh Sharma (Author), Timo Schurr (Author), Tanja Kuhnert (Author), Sanjeeb Bhandari (Author), Buddha Basnyat (Author), Raimund Lechner (Author), Michiel van Veelen (Author), Marika Falla (Author), Iztok Tomazin (Author), Ken Zafren (Author), Giacomo Strapazzon (Author), Barbara Sperner-Unterweger (Author), Hermann Brugger (Author), Katharina Hüfner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bern Open Publishing, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Lake Louise Score (LLS) is a common tool for diagnosing acute mountain sickness (AMS) after a recent gain in altitude. Required symptoms (headache, dizziness, fatigue or gastrointestinal symptoms) are unspecific, subjective and not detectable by physiological parameters. (Talks et al., 2022; Boo...