Respiratory failure is a serious condition where the body doesn't get enough oxygen. Learn about the types, causes, symptoms, and treatments of acute and chronic respiratory failure.

Symptoms of acute respiratory failure include shortness of breath and confusion. ... Hypoxemic respiratory failure. In this type of the condition, there is not enough oxygen in a person’s blood.

BOSTON — When capturing ROX index in acute hypoxic respiratory failure, time from the start of high-flow nasal cannula therapy impacted the index’s sensitivity and specificity, according to ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is not without risk, but it is a crucial consideration that can be life saving when patients fail traditional therapies for severe respiratory failure. Comments ...

Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Following Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (m-TEER): The Role of Aortic Stenosis. Presenter: Mark Sonbol. ... Acute Procedural and Clinical Outcomes of ...

The patient is diagnosed with combined acute hypoxemic (type I) and acute hypercapnic (type II) respiratory failure along with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

Dr. Cesar G. Berto (Medicine): A 61-year-old man was transferred to this hospital because of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and shock.

A 52-year-old man was evaluated in a hospital in Argentina for fever and hypoxemic respiratory failure. Imaging showed pulmonary opacities, and the hematocrit was 56.9%. A diagnosis was made.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is not without risk, but it is a crucial consideration that can be life saving when patients fail traditional therapies for severe respiratory failure. Comments ...