Acute respiratory failure

Acute respiratory failure refers to the patient's original respiratory function is normal, due to some sudden reasons, such as airway obstruction, drowning, drug poisoning, central nervous muscle disorders inhibit breathing, the body is often too late to compensate, if not timely diagnosed and effective control Measures can often be life threatening. However, most patients with this type of respiratory failure have good original respiratory function. If they are rescued in time, the prognosis is often better than chronic respiratory failure. However, it is also common in patients with poor original respiratory function in clinic. For some sudden reasons, airway obstruction caused by common respiratory infections can cause PaCO2 to rise sharply and PaO2 to decrease sharply. It is clinically used to attribute this type of respiratory failure to chronic respiratory Acute exacerbation of failure.

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