“AMS can progress into life-threatening high-altitude pulmonary edema [HAPE] or high-altitude cerebral edema [HACE] which both require evacuation.

But especially at elevations over 10,000 feet, symptoms can worsen and lead to more severe health conditions: High altitude cerebral edema (HACE) or high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE).

TELLURIDE – A doctor here with a background in emergency medicine is treating patients sensitive to high altitude before, instead of after, they get in real trouble. Dr. Peter Hackett, the ...

image: High Altitude Medicine & Biology, the Official Journal of the International Society for Mountain Medicine ... pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, ...