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As respiratory arrest starts carbon dioxide is not removed properly from the bloodstream which causes a buildup of carbonic acid. Anaphylaxis occurs most often in young people and females. Okay, how the hell does a person get past a thorough military physical without coming clean about that allergy! Didn’t matter now anyway, it was time to do a thorough brain review and treatment. I asked her if she had any past medical history.She was able to mumble in a few words which I assembled that she was allergic to grass pollen.

At this point she was slipping into confusion and on her way to unconsciousness. I had my team pick her up into the ambulance and lay her down so I could go to work. She had audible stridor which I knew from my medical training was related to an upper airway obstruction. She could barely get a breath in and she could barely speak. Apparently she waited 20 minutes before telling anyone and now the clock was ticking. They said she just started having a hard time breathing. They were part of an engineering unit so not much to report about how this may have happened. The soldiers who brought her to the ambulance had no idea what was happening and they were afraid.

Charlie was a young soldier approximately 20 years old who was brought to me in acute respiratory distress. I was all push upped out and just getting myself situated in the back of the ambulance that afternoon going over inventory when Charlie arrived. The good news was we had two days left of supporting this mission and we were excited to move on to something more exciting and more motivating back at our home unit.

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It was dusty and the air full of thickness and humidity. Showers rotated daily so we were afforded a field shower every third day. The kind of days where you didn’t do anything and you still wanted to shower at the end of it. The week was terribly slow and it had been super hot and dry all week out in the field.

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