Sohail Sabir, Muhammed Aslam, Shujaat Hussain, Tassawar Hussain.
Field management of common high altitude Emergencies.
Pak Armed Forces Med J Jan ;54(1):117-22.

From military point of view, the accounts of the battle of Junin (14,600 feet) in 1824 revealed that some of the Spanish troops rapidly brought up from the coast to fight the native highlanders frothed at the mouth, almost certainly due to high altitude pulmonary oedema. These early military lessons were ignored by the Indian government in 1962 when it was called upon to confront an incursion of Chinese troops into its Himalayan borders and provided the world medical literature with the largest series of cases of benign as well as malignant mountain sickness ever recorded 1. The three common high altitude emergencies are acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high altitude cerebral edema (HACE). This a review article.

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