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  • 1UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, Portex Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK ; Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.

British Journal of Pain
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Acute high-altitude illnessacute mountain sicknesshigh-altitude cerebral oedemahigh-altitude pulmonary oedemahypoxia

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