Acute respiratory failure in children

I. Overview: 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 diagnosed in time and Taking effective control measures early 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. Acute and chronic respiratory failure are largely the same in terms of etiology, pathophysiological characteristics, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment principles, except that there are large differences in the etiology, etiology, and duration of the disease. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a special type of acute respiratory failure, a critical illness involving various clinical departments. Respiratory failure in children is the first cause of death in newborns and infants. Due to the in-depth understanding of pediatric respiratory physiology and the advancement of medical technology, the treatment effect of pediatric respiratory failure has been significantly improved than in the past. This section focuses on issues related to newborn and infant respiratory failure.

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