This might be a good time to :
(1) Conclude this thread (please)
(2) provide some references for those who want to learn more, and for those who need to learn more.

This is the link I previously posted by International Society Mountain Medicine (Note: this is one of several similar sources. There are some nuances and variations as is expected for the management of a biological/medical problem where there is the mix of science, experience, and judgment.)
http://www.ismmed.org/np_altitude_tutorial.htm

By the grand old man of the mountains, Charles Houston (pronounced House-ton). He was famous in the 1950s for K2/Art Gilkey episode plus the first English language medical report attributing pulmonary edema to HAPE rather than heart failure, later Operation Everest hypobaric chamber tests, and versions of this book which reads well for laymen:
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Higher-Oxyge...2077&sr=8-1

My early-on favorite high altitude physiology book by Californian Herb Hultgren who took cath equipment to the Andes to help unravel the medical mysteries of soroche, the South American word for "ore." Why ore? High altitude miners got AMS, HAPE, reentry HAPE, and Chronic Mountain Sickness (Monge's Disease). The rough equivalent of that in cattle is Brisket disease.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dus-stripbooks-tree&field-keywords=herb+hultgren&x=15&y=18

The most current major and comprehensive text for really big bucks by two West Coasters and a Brit.
http://www.amazon.com/High-Altitude-Medi...2941&sr=1-1