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respiratory failure
Includes:
1) acute respiratory failure
2) chronic respiratory failure
Pathology:
- inadequate alveolar ventilation resulting carbon dioxide retention
- increased carbon dioxide production
- decreased respiratory drive
- excessive work of breathing
- increased dead ventilation space
- neuromuscular weakness
Specific
acute respiratory failure
chronic respiratory failure
hypercapneic respiratory failure
hypoxemic respiratory failure
postoperative respiratory failure
respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
General
lung disease