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Classroom classification

百科

Altitude sickness

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Common symptoms

胸闷、气短、头晕、疲乏

The pathology of disease

Altitude sickness includes acute mountain sickness (headache, nausea), high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), and high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE); ascend slowly; acclimatize; descent; acetazolamide/dexamethasone.

Symptoms

Headache; nausea; breathlessness at rest; confusion; ataxia (HACE); after rapid ascent; >2500 m; emergency descent

Causes

Hypobaric hypoxia; rapid ascent; individual susceptibility.

Treatment

Descend; oxygen; acetazolamide prophylaxis; dexamethasone for HACE; nifedipine for HAPE; slow ascent

Dept

Emergency / pulmonology / wilderness medicine.

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