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Also 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

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Research

151,382 papers

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NCI Thesaurus ID
C26872
ICPC 2 ID
R99
ICD-9-CM
518.83
Commons category
Respiratory failure
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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.

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