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Portable Hyperbaric Chamber
Aka: Portable Hyperbaric Chamber, Gamow Bag
- See Also
- High Altitude Related-Conditions
- High Altitude Sickness (Acute Mountain Sickness)
- High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)
- High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE)
- Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score
- Indications
- High Altitude Sickness field treatment
- Mechanism
- Designed via training high performance athletes
- Allows athletes to simulate sea level training
- Pumps air into bag to simulate lower altitude
- Protocol
- Pump Gamow Bag to 2 PSI
- Patient remains in bag for 1-2 hours pre-descent
- Descend as rapidly as possible