Respiratory failure in the elderly

Respiratory failure (respiratory failure) is not a disease, but a clinical syndrome of severe damage to lung function caused by various causes, causing hypoxia or combined carbon dioxide retention, which leads to a series of physiological disorders and metabolic disorders of the body. At the same time, because respiratory failure has no obvious clinical features in the early stage, it is generally necessary to make a clear diagnosis through laboratory arterial blood gas analysis.

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