Travelers to high elevations might require acetazolamide, dexamethasone, or other medications to prevent or treat altitude illness.
Travelers to high elevations might require acetazolamide, dexamethasone, or other medications to prevent or treat altitude illness. Mental status changes and ataxia are warning signs for high-altitude cerebral edema. Breathlessness at rest is the sign of life-threatening high-altitude pulmonary edema. See Sec. 4, Ch. 5, High Elevation Travel & Altitude Illness.