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(Chest. 1966;50:176-178.)
© 1966 American College of Chest Physicians

Acute Ventilatory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

Franklin B. Saksena M.D.1 and Benjamin Burrows M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

Chronically hypercapneic patients with chronic obstructive lung disease are likely to develop acute increase in CO2 retention under the stress of acute respiratory infection or with exacerbation of congestive heart failure. With milder episodes of acute ventilatory failure, patients usually respond satisfactorily to mangement of the underlying cardiopulmonary disorder, requiring neither analeptic drugs nor mechanical ventilatory assistance.






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