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Great!
We’ve talked about a lot of important
things in this particular lecture.
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After this lecture, now you
should be able to understand
how increases in barometric pressure
such as things that are associated with
breath hold-diving affect the physiology.
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You should be able to identify the
major physiological responses
to decreases in barometric pressure
both on acute and chronic levels.
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And finally, we went to the
pathophysiology of altitude illnesses
such as acute mountain sickness,
high altitude cerebral edema, and
high altitude pulmonary edema.
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And hopefully, you’ve garnered a
couple of important issues with that.
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One is gradual ascension,
is very important.
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And if the person is having problems,
really the only way to fix this
is to get them down to a
lower barometric pressure.