Recent content by John111

Thanks a lot for very interesting and informative answers, really appreciate you all taking time to explain this in detail! Research indeed seems to be quite mixed on Spo2's value in predicting altitude sickness. I found more studies saying there is no link than those which did find a link...

Fellow EMTs, I recently took a trip to Rocky Mountains National Park in CO with my kids. We live at sea level so I was worried they might get altitude sickness from flying in to nearly 8,000 ft and hiking at 9-10k next day. We took all standard precautions like taking it slow, lots of water...