Ascent rate and the Lake Louise scoring system: An analysis of one year of emergency ward entries for high-altitude sickness at the Mustang district hospital, Nepal

Kapil Madi Poudel; Tika Ram Poudel; Neha Shah; Sunita Bhandari; Ramakanta Sharma; Anil Timilsina; Manab Prakash

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0276901

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Ascent rate and the Lake Louise scoring system: An analysis of one year of emergency ward entries for high-altitude sickness at the Mustang district hospital, Nepal

Kapil Madi Poudel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kapil Madi Poudel, Tika Ram Poudel, Manab Prakash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Maharajgung, Bagmati, Nepal, Mustang District Hospital, Mustang, Gandaki, Nepal
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Tika Ram Poudel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kapil Madi Poudel, Tika Ram Poudel, Manab Prakash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GoldenGate International College, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9869-022X

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Neha Shah,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Mustang District Hospital, Mustang, Gandaki, Nepal, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Province 1, Nepal
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Sunita Bhandari,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Province 1, Nepal
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Ramakanta Sharma,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation National Youth Council, Bhaktapur, Bagmati, Nepal
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Anil Timilsina,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Mustang District Hospital, Mustang, Gandaki, Nepal
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Manab Prakash

Contributed equally to this work with: Kapil Madi Poudel, Tika Ram Poudel, Manab Prakash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: manab.prakash@giis.edu.np

Affiliation Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-2981

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Ascent rate and the Lake Louise scoring system: An analysis of one year of emergency ward entries for high-altitude sickness at the Mustang district hospital, Nepal

Kapil Madi Poudel,
Tika Ram Poudel,
Neha Shah,
Sunita Bhandari,
Ramakanta Sharma,
Anil Timilsina,
Manab Prakash

Published: October 27, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276901

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