KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 169 · KROK (Dentistry)
A group of students who were climbing up a mountain presented with euphoria, tachypnea, tachycardia. Specify the immediate reason for hypocapnia accompanying mountain sickness:
- A. Increase in respiration rate and depth
- B. Decrease in respiration depth
- C. Erythrocytosis
- D. Increase in heart rate
- E. Anaemia
Hint
Ask what at high altitude stimulates the peripheral chemoreceptors and how this changes the removal of CO₂ by the lungs.
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