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Oxidative Stress Assessment in Breath-Hold Diving
(2019)Purpose: Breath-hold diving results in significant changes in blood gases' levels. Challenging variations in oxygen partial pressures may induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) production that exacerbate oxidative stress ... -
Classic Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Reference Values for Assessing Body Composition in Male and Female Athletes
(2019)Bioimpedance standards are well established for the normal healthy population and in clinical settings, but they are not available for many sports categories. The aim of this study was to develop reference values for male ... -
Prolonged Heat Acclimation and Aerobic Performance in Endurance Trained Athletes
(2019)Heat acclimation (HA) involves physiological adaptations that directly promote exercise performance in hot environments. However, for endurance-athletes it is unclear if adaptations also improve aerobic capacity and ... -
Hematological Adaptations to Prolonged Heat Acclimation in Endurance-Trained Males
(2019)Heat acclimation is associated with plasma volume (PV) expansion that occurs within the first week of exposure. However, prolonged effects on hemoglobin mass (Hbmass) are unclear as intervention periods in previous studies ... -
Transcription Factors Regulation in Human Peripheral White Blood Cells during Hypobaric Hypoxia Exposure: an in-vivo experimental study
(2019)High altitude is a natural laboratory, within which the clinical study of human physiological response to hypobaric hypoxia (HH) is possible. Failure in the response results in progressive hypoxemia, inflammation and ... -
Mortality in Different Mountain Sports Activities Primarily Practiced in the Winter Season: a Narrative Review
(2019)Annually, millions of people engage in mountain sports activities all over the world. These activities are associated with health benefits, but concurrently with a risk for injury and death. Knowledge on death rates is ... -
Workload efficiency as a new tool to describe external and internal competitive match load of a professional soccer team: A descriptive study on the relationship between pre-game training loads and relative match load
(2019)The current study introduces a new index for external and internal workload, "workload efficiency", and assesses in professional soccer the influence of pre-match training load on match workload efficiency. External and ... -
Effect of Acute and Chronic Xenon Inhalation on Erythropoietin, Hematological Parameters, and Athletic Performance
(2019)BACKGROUND: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of acute sub-anesthetic dosages of xenon inhalation to cause erythropoiesis, and determine the effect of chronic xenon dosing on hematological parameters and athletic ... -
Can hyperoxic preconditioning in normobaric hypoxia (3500m) improve all-out exercise performance in highly skilled skiers? A randomized, crossover study
(2019)PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether oxygen supplementation immediately prior to exercise (FiO2=1.0) improves all-out exercise performance in normobaric hypoxia (3500m) in highly skilled ... -
On-Site Treatment of Snow Avalanche Victims: from Bench to Mountainside
(2018)The number of avalanche accidents involving winter recreationists has notably increased in recent decades due to the increasing popularity of outdoor winter activities. The International Liaison Committee on Cardiopulmonary ... -
The Use of E-Learning in Medical Education for Mountain Rescuers Concerning Hypothermia
(2018)OBJECTIVE: Victims of mountain accidents are often exposed to wet and cold environments which may increase the risk of hypothermia. Mountain rescuers should be able to recognize and manage hypothermia. We aimed to assess ... -
Safety, hemodynamic effects and detection of acute xenon inhalation: Rationale for banning xenon from sport
(2019)This study aimed to quantify the sedative effects, detection rates, and cardiovascular responses to xenon. On 3 occasions, participants breathed xenon (FiXe 30% for 20 min; FiXe 50% for 5 min; FiXe 70% for 2 min) in a ... -
Wilderness mass casualty incident (MCI): rescue chain after avalanche at Everest Base Camp (EBC) in 2015
(2018)The Nepal Earthquake of 2015 killed over 8000 people and injured over 20,000 in Nepal. Moments after the earthquake, an avalanche of falling ice came down from above Everest Base Camp (EBC). The air blast created by the ... -
Intercultural competence of western teachers for Nepalese rescuers
(2018)INTRODUCTION: Educational projects in mountain rescue in Nepal have a long tradition. They are usually led by Western experts who train their Nepalese colleagues using teams of people with diverse cultural background. To ... -
Lightning accidents in the Austrian alps - a 10-year retrospective nationwide analysis
(2018)Background: Lightning strikes are rare but potentially lethal. The risk for suffering a lightning strike in a mountain environment is unknown. The aim of this nationwide study was to analyse all lightning accidents in the ... -
Are Pre-ascent Low-Altitude Saliva Cortisol Levels Related to the Subsequent Acute Mountain Sickness Score? Observations from a Field Study
(2019)Background: The associations among cortisol levels, body water status, and acute mountain sickness (AMS) remain unclear. We investigated associations between AMS prevalence and severity with resting saliva cortisol levels ... -
Physiological Responses in Humans Acutely Exposed to High Altitude (3480 m): Minute Ventilation and Oxygenation Are Predictive for the Development of Acute Mountain Sickness
(2019)The importance of arterial oxygen saturation for the prediction of acute mountain sickness (AMS) is still a matter of debate. Reasons for discrepancies may result from varying laboratory or field conditions and their ...
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