Acute respiratory failure
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DDx
Airway disorders
- Asthma
- COPD exacerbation
- Airway obstruction
- Left ventricular dysfunction
- Mitral regurgitation or stenosis
- Volume overload states
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Re-expansion
- Pneumonia or aspiration pneumonitis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung contusion
- Pulmonary thromboembolism
- Flail chest
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Massive ascites
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Poliomyelitis
- Botulism
- Organophosphates or aminoglycosides
- Spinal cord injury
- Phrenic nerve injury or dysfunction
- Hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia
- Myxedema
- Drugs: sedative, hypnotic, opioid, anesthetics
- Brainstem disorder
- Intracranial hypertension
- CNS infections
- Fever, infection, seizures, drugs
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DDx
Airway disorders
- Asthma
- COPD exacerbation
- Airway obstruction
- Left ventricular dysfunction
- Mitral regurgitation or stenosis
- Volume overload states
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Re-expansion
- Pneumonia or aspiration pneumonitis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung contusion
- Pulmonary thromboembolism
- Flail chest
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Massive ascites
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Poliomyelitis
- Botulism
- Organophosphates or aminoglycosides
- Spinal cord injury
- Phrenic nerve injury or dysfunction
- Hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia
- Myxedema
- Drugs: sedative, hypnotic, opioid, anesthetics
- Brainstem disorder
- Intracranial hypertension
- CNS infections
- Fever, infection, seizures, drugs
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