Causes
- 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
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