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respiratory failure
Sign in to saveAlso known as acute and chronic respiratory failure, acute-on-chronic respiratory failure (disorder), respiratory insufficiency/failure, acute-on-chronic respiratory failure, acute respiratory Failure, chronic respiratory failure, Failure, Respiratory
inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system
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Vinony's link graph records 939 inbound references to respiratory failure, and connects out to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure and ALS.
It sits within the topics Causes of death, Intensive care medicine and Medical emergencies.
Vinony links it to 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Specialty
- Pulmonology , Intensive care medicine
- Symptoms
- Shortness of breath , cyanosis , tachycardia , tachypnea , arrhythmia , headache , hypertension
- Complications
- seizure , fainting , panic attack , infections , coma
- Types
- Type 1–4
- Causes
- Stroke , cystic fibrosis , COPD , ARDS , pneumonia , pulmonary embolism , neuromuscular diseases like ALS
- Diagnostic method
- Arterial blood gas test
- Differential diagnosis
- ARDS , aspiration pneumonia
- Treatment
- Treatment of underlying cause, non-invasive ventilation
- Frequency
- 10–80 per 100,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
151,382 papers- Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Acute Respiratory Failure.Critical care clinics · 2024
- Pathophysiology and Classification of Respiratory Failure.Critical care nursing quarterly · 2016
- Acute Respiratory Failure in Children.Pediatric annals · 2018
- Respiratory failure.Pediatrics in review · 2014
- Hypercapnic respiratory failure - review.Casopis lekaru ceskych · 2023
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26872
- ICPC 2 ID
- R99
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000643
- ICD-9-CM
- 518.83
- Commons category
- Respiratory failure
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels. A drop in the oxygen carried in the blood is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial carbon dioxide levels is called hypercapnia. Respiratory failure is classified as either Type 1 or Type 2, based on whether there is a high carbon dioxide level, and can be acute or chronic. In clinical trials, the definition of respiratory failure usually includes increased respiratory rate, abnormal blood gases (hypoxemia, hypercapnia, or both), and evidence of increased work of breathing. Respiratory failure causes an altered state of consciousness due to ischemia in the brain.
The typical partial pressure reference values are oxygen Pa O 2 more than 80 mmHg (11 kPa) and carbon dioxide Pa CO2 less than 45 mmHg (6.0 kPa).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “respiratory failure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.