TY - JOUR

T1 - The 2018 Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score

AU - Roach, Robert C.

AU - Hackett, Peter H.

AU - Oelz, Oswald

AU - Bärtsch, Peter

AU - Luks, Andrew M.

AU - MacInnis, Martin J.

AU - Baillie, J.Kenneth

AU - Macdonald, Jamie

AU - Oliver, Samuel

N1 - No post print version available - agreed by MW to validate BU members on paper as part of the Lake Louise AMS Score Consensus Committee (which consists of 81 members)

PY - 2018/3

Y1 - 2018/3

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - AMS

KW - high altitude illness

KW - history

KW - Lake Louise

KW - symptom scores

U2 - 10.1089/ham.2017.0164

DO - 10.1089/ham.2017.0164

M3 - Article

VL - 19

JO - High Altitude Medicine and Biology

JF - High Altitude Medicine and Biology

SN - 1527-0297

IS - 1

ER -