You are working in the first aid station of a ski resort. Your base is at 7500 feet, and the peak of the mountain is 9200 feet. A 23-year-old female patient comes into the clinic appearing weak and pale. She tells you that she arrived yesterday and did not sleep well last night, and today she has a mild headache, is nauseated, feels like she has no energy, coughs continuously regardless of what she does to relieve it, and feels short of breath. When you take her vital signs, you notice her SpO2 is 85%. You suspect that she has:

You are working in the first aid station of a ski resort. Your base is at 7500 feet, and the peak of the mountain is 9200 feet. A 23-year-old female patient comes into the clinic appearing weak and pale. She tells you that she arrived yesterday and did not sleep well last night, and today she has a mild headache, is nauseated, feels like she has no energy, coughs continuously regardless of what she does to relieve it, and feels short of breath. When you take her vital signs, you notice her SpO2 is 85%. You suspect that she has:

You are working in the first aid station of a ski resort. Your base is at 7500 feet, and the peak of the mountain is 9200 feet. A 23-year-old female patient comes into the clinic appearing weak and pale. She tells you that she arrived yesterday and did not sleep well last night, and today she has a mild headache, is nauseated, feels like she has no energy, coughs continuously regardless of what she does to relieve it, and feels short of breath. When you take her vital signs, you notice her SpO2 is 85%. You suspect that she has:




A) c. High-altitude pulmonary edema
B) a. Acute mountain sickness
C) b. Altitude cerebral edema
D) d. Pneumonia high


Answer: A) c. High-altitude pulmonary edema


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