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RESPIRATION AND SLEEP AT HIGH ALTITUDE
2nd Advanced Course in “Mountain Medicine’’
MANOS VAGIAKIS
Pulmonologist-Intensivist-
Director of ICU and Sleep Disorder Center
‘’Evangelismos’’ Hospital
Athens, Greece
MAY 25-27
OLYMPUS MOUNTAIN
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Active Phase
INHALATION
Passive Phase
EXHALATION
Breathing in Breathing out
Respiration
• air inflates the lungs
diaphragm
descends
• air is forced out
diaphragm
relax
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Respiratory System
• Respiration is the exchange of gases between the body and its tissues and the outside ambient air.
• The main objective of respiration is to add oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
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The Lung
• Air enters through the nose, mouth, trachea to the bronchial tree.
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PCO2 =
.
X K
PACO2 = PIO2 -
PACO2
R + F
VCO2
. VA
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The Lung
• Within the red blood cell, there is Hemoglobin, which function as specialized oxygen transport system that allows far more oxygen to be carried by blood
• At high altitude, we need to increase rate and depth of breathing in order to get enough oxygen into our lung.
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Hypoxia
• State of blood when it has an not enough supply of oxygen for the requirements of the tissues and body cells
• This can cause impairment of body function especially brain.
• Death will follow if oxygen lack continues.
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Reduced
pO2
in the lungs
(high
altitude)
Body tissue
Red
blood cells
Hypoxic Hypoxia
A deficiency in Alveolar
oxygen exchange
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Symptoms of hypoxia
• Sensory loss- vision, especially for color, is affected early, and then touch, orientation, and hearing are impairment.
• Impairment of consciousness- as hypoxia progresses the individual’s level of consciousness drops until he becomes confused, then semiconscious, and unconscious. Unless he is rescued he will die and at high altitude death can occur within a few minutes.
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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Relationship between altitude and inspired O2 pressure.
As barometric pressure decreases with ascent inspired oxygen
tension drops singnificantly
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The Brain
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Effect of lack oxygen to Brain
Lack of oxygen to the brain, lead to the failure of the brain function such as
• Inability to do normal physical activities,
• Distorted vision
• Difficulty with memorizing
• Difficulty in judgment and decision making
• Loss of thinking ability
• Fail to communicate and write well
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Why important to
recognize?
• Because the nervous system tissues have a heavy requirement for oxygen, especially the brain (and eyes), most hypoxic symptoms are directly or indirectly related to the nervous system (brain).
• If hypoxia is prolonged, serious problems develop with ultimate death . In extreme cases (prior to death), some brain cells are actually killed, and they cannot be regenerated.
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
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Ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia may be divided into three stages:
a. Ascent to high altitude produces a fall in arterial oxygen tension.
b. This stimulates peripheral chemoreceptors to increase tidal volume and respiratory rate.
PAO2 increase but CO2 falls alkalosis.
VENTILATORY RESPONSES TO ACUTE HYPOXIA
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PCO2 =
.
X K
PACO2 = PIO2 -
PACO2
R + F
VCO2
. VA
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VENTILATORY RESPONSES TO ACUTE
HYPOXIA
Over several days the kidneys excrete
bicarbonates, decreases PH and allows further
increase in ventilation. (ACCLIMATIZATION).
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Ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia may be divided into three stages:
c. Residents at high altitude: fall in minute ventilation and a loss of the normal ventilatory drive to hypoxia.
VENTILATORY RESPONSES TO ACUTE HYPOXIA
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1089
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Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care (2000) 11, 34–41
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Sleep At high altitude
Sleep Stages:
- N1
- N2
- N3
- REM
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ΣΤΑΔΙΟ N1
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ΣΤΑΔΙΟ N2
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ΣΤΑΔΙΟ N3
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ΣΤΑΔΙΟ REM
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All-night sleep plots for a single subject during a night at sea level (upper plot) and
the first night at altitude (lower plot). A, awake; R, REM sleep; D, stage 1; 2, stage 2;
3/4, stages 3 and 4.
Sleep at high altitude is associated with increased fragmentation, by frequent
awakenings and a reduction in stage 3/4 sleep.
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Breathing pattern and arterial oxygen saturation (Sao2) in a normal subject during
sleep at high altitude (4300 meters). Such a pattern is seen throughout much of sleep
in most individuals after ascent. There is characteristic, monotonously repetitive,
machinery-like periodic alternation of apnea and repetitive clusters of hyperpneic
breaths.
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Breathing pattern and arterial oxygenation in a subject with chronic mountain
polycythemia during sleep at his native altitude of 3100 meters. The breathing
pattern consists of an undulating depth of breathing with oscillation of arterial
oxygen saturation (Sao2).
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SLEEP 2012;35(3):419-423.
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SLEEP 2012;35(3):419-423.
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SLEEP 2012;35(3):419-423.
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Impedance plethysmograms show irregular, nonperiodic, breathing during sleep at
2850 meters in four subjects susceptible to high-altitude pulmonary edema.
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Schematic representation of potential mechanisms by which carbonic anhydrase
inhibitors (e.g., acetazolamide) decrease periodic breathing during sleep at high
altitude. These agents promote a bicarbonate diuresis, which lessens alkalosis and
reduces apnea but augments hyperventilation and hypocapnia. This suggests that
alkalosis may be more important than hypocapnia in the genesis of periodic breathing.
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Average arterial oxygen saturation (Sao2) in a sleeping subject at altitude (5360 m) without (blue area) and with (yellow area) acetazolamide. Treatment raised and stabilized arterial oxygen saturation.
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