Interpretation of wilderness medical society clinical practice guidelines for the prevention,diagnosis and treatment of acute altitude illness:2024 update
Yu Yanlu
Du Wenxiu
Sun Baodi
Shao Danbing
Abstract：The wilderness medical society published"Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention,diagnosis and treatment of acute altitude illness:2024 update"in Wilderness &Environmental Medicine on December 27,2023.The guidelines present the main prophylactic,diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for each disorder and provide recommendations about their role in disease management.The 2024 guidelines have added the aspect of"diagnosis"and elaborated on the diagnostic methods for acute altitude illness,as compared to the 2019 guidelines.Additionally,these updated guidelines provide supplementary recommendations for high-altitude travel in the patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).The purpose of this article is to analyze the 2024 updated guidelines and offer expert recommendations for clinicians.
Keywords：Acute altitude illnessPreventionDiagnosisTreatmentNovel coronavirus disease 2019
Publication Date：2024-10-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 908-912 )