High Altitude Medicine: A Case-Based Approach

Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and he is the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Belize Healthcare Partners, Central America. Dr Hidalgo is also the President-Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Hidalgo awarded with the highest recognition the American College of Physician offers to his members in 2012: "Master of the American College of Physician." For the last decade, he is the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course host by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine: For the last ten consecutive years, He received the Presidential Citation Award. Most recently, He also got the Global Safar Award, and in 2016 the American College of Critical Care awarded him with the Master of the American College of Critical Care. Dr. Hidalgo became the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Award. He is fellow of the American College of Chest Physician, and he is an author of several chapters and Books on Critical Care Medicine, the two most recent publication with springer: Critical Care Administration and highly Infectious disease in Critical Care. He is the Editor of the FCCS Tropical, and he actively participates in the reviewing of the MCCRC, FCCS, FCCS Obstetrics and FCCS surgical for the society of Critica Care Medicine (SCCM). Dr. Hidalgo is a member and one of the authors of the most recently Surviving Sepsis Campaign. He is a regular international speaker.

Dr. Sabrina Da Re Gutierrez was Professor of Pathophysiology at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz-Bolivia; Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Medical Residency Program at Caja Nacional de Salud, Bolivia and Head of the Critical Care Division at the Materno infantil Hospital, in La Paz, Bolivia. Besides, she was National Hospitals Chief and Regional Administrator of the Caja Nacional de Salud, Bolivia. Adviser for the Ministry of Health and the United Nations Development Programme, Bolivia. She was also President at Sociedad Boliviana de Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva Filial La Paz, Bolivia. She is fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. For the last decade Dr. Da Re promotes the Point-of-Care Ultrasonography, Multiprfessional Critical Care Medicine (MCCRC) and the Disaster Management (FDM). Dr. Sabrina Da Re is also author of several national standards, treatment guides, chapters, books and scientific publications on Critical Care Medicine. Her three most recent collegiate publications are: "Fisiología Respiratoria en 'Bases Fisiopatológicas de la Medicina'" (Bogotá-Colombia), "Cuidados Generales en el Manejo del Traumatismo Craneoencefálico Grave: Consenso Latinoamericano" (Spain), "Ecografía en la Paciente Obstétrica" (México).

Dr. Antonio Joao Gandra d'Almeida is a doctor in the Portuguese Armed Forces, with areas of interest in general surgery, critical care patients, emergency and catastrophe. He is invited professor of Coimbra university. He has a European Masters in Catastrophe, is a Fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Trainer of several courses in his areas of interest and an Editor of FCCS Surgical who has collaborated on several books. Is the North regional director of the Portuguese National Institute of Medical Emergency.

Dr. Jorge Hidalgo 是危重症醫學的教授，也是中美洲貝里斯醫療夥伴危重症科的負責人。Hidalgo 博士同時是世界危重症醫學與重症醫學學會的當選會長。2012 年，他獲得美國內科醫學會頒發的最高榮譽：「美國內科醫學會大師」。在過去十年中，他擔任由巴拉圭內科醫學會主辦的非常著名的 ACP 複習課程的主任。由於他對危重症醫學學會的傑出貢獻，連續十年獲得總統表彰獎。最近，他還獲得全球 Safar 獎，並在 2016 年獲得美國危重症醫學會頒發的美國危重症醫學會大師稱號，成為第一位獲得此獎項的拉丁美洲重症醫師。他是美國胸科醫學會的會員，並且是多本關於危重症醫學的書籍和章節的作者，其中兩本最新出版的書籍由 Springer 出版：危重症管理和危重症中的高度傳染性疾病。他是 FCCS Tropical 的編輯，並積極參與危重症醫學學會 (SCCM) 的 MCCRC、FCCS、FCCS 產科和 FCCS 外科的審查工作。Hidalgo 博士是最近的生存敗血症運動的成員和作者之一，並且是一位定期的國際演講者。

Dr. Sabrina Da Re Gutierrez 曾任玻利維亞聖安德烈斯大學的病理生理學教授；在玻利維亞國家健康保險局的醫學住院醫師計畫中擔任危重症醫學教授，並且是玻利維亞拉巴斯的母嬰醫院危重症科負責人。此外，她曾擔任國家醫院主任和玻利維亞國家健康保險局的區域管理員，並擔任衛生部和聯合國開發計畫的顧問。她還曾是玻利維亞危重症醫學與重症治療學會拉巴斯分會的會長。她是美國危重症醫學會的會員。在過去十年中，Da Re 博士推廣床邊超聲檢查、多專業危重症醫學 (MCCRC) 和災害管理 (FDM)。Sabrina Da Re 博士也是多項國家標準、治療指南、章節、書籍和關於危重症醫學的科學出版物的作者。她最近的三篇學術出版物為：「呼吸生理學在《醫學的病理生理基礎》中的應用」（哥倫比亞波哥大）、「重度顱腦外傷管理中的一般護理：拉丁美洲共識」（西班牙）和「產科病人的超聲檢查」（墨西哥）。

Dr. Antonio Joao Gandra d'Almeida 是葡萄牙武裝部隊的醫生，專注於一般外科、危重症病人、緊急情況和災難。他是科英布拉大學的受邀教授，擁有災難管理的歐洲碩士學位，是危重症醫學學會的會員、美國外科醫師學會的會員，並在其專業領域內擔任多個課程的講師，還是 FCCS 外科的編輯，並參與多本書籍的合作。他是葡萄牙國家醫療緊急救援機構的北部地區主任。