Tibetan plateau earthquake: altitude challenges to medical rescue work

Tengda Xu; Zhenhua Wang; Tao Li; Veronica Pei; Liping Wen; Lidong Wan; Yuxuan Wang; Xuezhong Yu

doi:10.1136/emermed-2011-200557

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Prehospital care

Tibetan plateau earthquake: altitude challenges to medical rescue work

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Tengda Xu Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zhenhua Wang Beijing Emergency Medical Center, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tao Li Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Veronica Pei Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Liping Wen Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lidong Wan Beijing Emergency Medical Center, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Yuxuan Wang Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Xuezhong Yu Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Tengda Xu, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; xutengda{at}yahoo.com.cn

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Xu T, Wang Z, Li T, et al

Tibetan plateau earthquake: altitude challenges to medical rescue work

Emergency Medicine Journal 2013;30:232-235.

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Accepted January 27, 2012
First published March 3, 2012.

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April 29, 2016

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