Acute mountain sickness also known as altitude sickness, simple mistake.
I am aware of those two now because you just answered thanks for the courtesy.
Have any of you experienced or attended to patients suffering from AMS, HAPE, or HACE?
Descent and oxygen are about the only two interventions Ive read about. could Aspirin have a positive effect?
National Registry accepts only AHA. I took both the red cross and AHA health care provider certs within a few months apart and found AHA to be slightly more comprehensive.
You should have been given a list to give to your personal/school physician but when I did mine they asked for TB/hep's/and tetanus among a few others.
He's not the type to scare with stories, I completely believe him. And yes she in every way and form ceased to breathe. They were attempting to excavate her and her head was forced by the dashboard at an awkward angle.
Yes one of my skills instructors who served as a fire/paramedic for 25 years, told us about a call where the passenger of a vehicle accident ceased breathing so he adjusted her airway and consequently died of a broken neck injury.