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This document discusses respiratory failure, defining it as the inability of the lungs to meet metabolic demands due to failure of oxygenation and/or carbon dioxide homeostasis. It describes two main types of respiratory failure - hypoxemic, where oxygen levels are low with normal or low carbon dioxide, and hypercapnic, where carbon dioxide levels are high. Various causes of each type are provided along with clinical manifestations and treatment approaches like oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, and po

Author

Aleksei Romahov

Language

EN