Respiratory failure

Respiratory failure is due to severe respiratory dysfunction, which prevents normal breathing at rest, hypoxia or carbon dioxide retention, and a series of clinical syndromes of physiological and metabolic disorders. In the early stage of illness, I only feel forced to breathe, it is difficult to breathe in severe cases, sweating, lips, nails, cyanosis, intellectual function change, directional dysfunction, headache, insomnia, facial expression, irritability, turbulence, and lethargy. , Increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, skin vasodilation, etc. Some severe patients have oliguria, edema in the lower extremities or liver damage and gastrointestinal bleeding.

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