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Exam questionKROK 1Dentistry ยท 2012

A group of students who were climbing up a mountain presented with euphoria, tachypnea, tachycardia. Specify the immediate reason for hypocapnia accompanying mountain sickness:

Answer options

  1. Anaemia
  2. Increase in heart rate
  3. Erythrocytosis
  4. Decrease in respiration depth
  5. Increase in respiration rate and depth
Correct answer

Increase in respiration rate and depth

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