Respiratory Failure Flashcards

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What’s respiratory failure?

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What are the categories of respiratory failure?

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What are the clinical hallmarks of respiratory failure?

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Contrast hypoxemia and hypercapnia resp. Failure

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What is arterial hypoxemia?

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What is the A-a gradient?

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What are the causes of arterial hypoxemia?

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What’s the impact of a high altitude on A-a?

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Discuss hypoventilation on A-a

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10
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Discuss V/Q mismatch

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Discuss intrapulmonary shunt

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What’s the response to inspired air O2?

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How can acute asthma affect V/Q?

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How can thromboembolic disease affect hypoxemia ?

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How does presence of massive parenchyma disease affect hypoxemia?

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Discuss hypoxemia with hypercapnia

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What does PaCO2 depend on?

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What are the causes of hypercapnia?

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What are the possible sites of respiratory failure due to ventilatory pump failure?

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What are the examples of hypoventilation?

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How can neurological deficits cause hypoventilation ?

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What are the features of hypercapnia?

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How can ABG help differentiate hypoxemia with acute vs chronic respiratory acidosis?

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How can respiratory failure of hypoxemic but normacwpnic type?

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What’s ARDS/ALI?

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How can we diagnose ALI?

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What are the causes/predisposing conditions of ARDS?

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Discuss the pathophysiology of ARDS

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Classify hypoxia based on oxygen transport