Respiratory Failure - Causes

Causes

  • Pulmonary dysfunction
    • Asthma
    • Emphysema
    • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    • Pneumonia
    • Pneumothorax
    • Pulmonary contusion
    • Hemothorax
    • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a specific and life-threatening type of respiratory failure.
    • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Cardiac dysfunction
    • Pulmonary edema
    • Cerebrovascular Accident
    • Arrhythmia
    • Congestive heart failure
    • Valve pathology
  • Other
    • Fatigue due to prolonged tachypnoea in metabolic acidosis
    • Intoxication with drugs (e.g., morphine, benzodiazepines, alcohol) that suppress respiration.
    • Neurological Disease
    • Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

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