Respiratory failure
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August 16, 2003
Acute shortness of breath Anxiety
• RR 40/min, Cyanosis • ABG: PaO2 61mm Hg(FiO2 1.0)
PaCO2 35 mmHg, pH 7.20 • X-ray: clouded glass • Diagnosis:ARDS
Alveolar or interstitial lung diseases
• pneumonia, emphysema, pulmonary tuberculosis, diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary edema
Pulmonary vascular diseases
• Peripheral respiratory failure
• Dyspnea
According to onset of respiratory failure
• Acute, develops in seconds or hours • Chronic, develops in days or longer, elevated HCO3• Acute onset of Chronic respiratory failure • Have no definitive borderline
Neuromuscular diseases
• Cerebrovascular diseases, craniocerebral trauma, cerebritis and sedative-hypnotic, poliomyelitis, polyneuritis, myasthenia gravis