Respiratory failure

Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 242-245

  Hart, Nicholas ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hypercapnia; hypoxaemia; lung failure; oxygen therapy; respiratory muscle pump failure; ventilation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; LUNG ALVEOLUS HYPOVENTILATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 42949112719     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2008.02.006     Document Type: Review

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