Talk:Respiratory failure

Respiratory failure vs. Respiratory distress
Does anyone think Respiratory distress should redirect here (rather than to respiratory distress syndrome)? -- JVinocur 01:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought that respiratory distress was just difficulty breathing ie dyspnoea and that respiratory failure is the specific 'respiration resulting in Po2 less than 8kPa' anyone clear up?


 * No, respiratory distress is a symptom of respiratory failure but may also be encountered in other conditions such as metabolic acidosis. JFW &#124; T@lk  14:58, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Causes
I removed the following list, because it attempts to be exhaustive while failing to do so. Perhaps a table with lots of references?


 * 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
 * Jameson's Mamba bite

Any good sources that might help here? JFW &#124; T@lk  14:58, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: WikiProject Medicine Fall 2023 UCF COM
— Assignment last updated by Courseaccount333 (talk) 22:40, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine; UCF College of Medicine
Hello, I am a fourth-year medical student participating in a Wikiproject Medicine course at the UCF College of Medicine. The objective of this course is to edit, update, and expand a current article related to medicine. I have included a workplan of my intended changes below:

Background section: This section only has 1 source and has limited information. I hope to improve this section by adding quality sources and expanding the section's content. In particular, I hope to use this source:https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24835-respiratory-failure to add information regarding the major categories of respiratory failure: respiratory failure due to shock, perioperative respiratory failure, hypercapnic respiratory failure, and hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Cause: This section currently does not have a single reference/citation/source. I therefore hope to improve this section by adding some references.

Type 3: This section does not have any references/sources and is very limited without much information. I therefore plan to improve this section by adding a few sources and also expanding upon the text to provide additional information about Type 3 respiratory failure for readers.

NEW SECTIONS I PLAN TO WRITE FROM SCRATCH:

Symptoms and Signs: The Wiki page currently lacks sections on symptoms and signs of respiratory failure. I hope to address this deficit by adding information regarding clinical history, symptoms, and physical examination, and imaging findings (radiography, ultrasonography, pulse oximetry, capnometry) findings. I will base my content for this section on this source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526127/.

Prognosis: The Wiki page currently lacks information about prognostic indicators for patients with respiratory failure. I hope to write a section about this based on information from this source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526127/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Courseaccount333 (talk • contribs) 23:20, 24 October 2023 (UTC)