Altitude Illness Practice Guidelines 3 Acetazolamide Multiple trials have established a role for acetazolamide in prevention of AMS

Andrew M. Luks, MD; Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS; Luanne Freer, MD; Colin K. Grissom, MD; Linda E. Keyes, MD; Scott E. McIntosh, MD, MPH; George W. Rodway, PhD, APRN; Robert B. Schoene, MD; Ken Zafren, MD; Peter H. Hackett, MD Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Yellowstone National Park, WY; Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Honolulu, HI; Everest ER, Himalayan Rescue Association, Kathmandu, Nepal; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; Boulder Community Health, Boulder, CO; Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; University of California, Davis School of Nursing, Sacramento, CA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sound Physicians, St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; Himalayan Rescue Association, Kathmandu, Nepal; Altitude Research Center, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO