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Acute respiratory failure
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Airway disorders
- Asthma
- COPD exacerbation
- Airway obstruction
- Left ventricular dysfunction
- Mitral regurgitation or stenosis
- Volume overload states
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Re-expansion
- Pneumonia or aspiration pneumonitis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung contusion
- Pulmonary thromboembolism
- Flail chest
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Massive ascites
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Poliomyelitis
- Botulism
- Organophosphates or aminoglycosides
- Spinal cord injury
- Phrenic nerve injury or dysfunction
- Hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia
- Myxedema
- Drugs: sedative, hypnotic, opioid, anesthetics
- Brainstem disorder
- Intracranial hypertension
- CNS infections
- Fever, infection, seizures, drugs
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DDx
Airway disorders
- Asthma
- COPD exacerbation
- Airway obstruction
- Left ventricular dysfunction
- Mitral regurgitation or stenosis
- Volume overload states
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Re-expansion
- Pneumonia or aspiration pneumonitis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung contusion
- Pulmonary thromboembolism
- Flail chest
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Massive ascites
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Poliomyelitis
- Botulism
- Organophosphates or aminoglycosides
- Spinal cord injury
- Phrenic nerve injury or dysfunction
- Hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia
- Myxedema
- Drugs: sedative, hypnotic, opioid, anesthetics
- Brainstem disorder
- Intracranial hypertension
- CNS infections
- Fever, infection, seizures, drugs
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Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Acute Respiratory Failure." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. 5minute, www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114774/all/Acute_respiratory_failure.
Zeiger RF. Acute respiratory failure. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114774/all/Acute_respiratory_failure. Accessed January 20, 2021.
Zeiger, R. F. (2015). Acute respiratory failure. In Diagnosaurus (4th edition). McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved January 20, 2021, from https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114774/all/Acute_respiratory_failure
Zeiger RF. Acute Respiratory Failure [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. [cited 2021 January 20]. Available from: https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114774/all/Acute_respiratory_failure.
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