PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | respiratory failure |
| Phenotype | C0024115|pulmonary diseases |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22506245 | In patients with neuromuscular disorders that are characterized by respiratory failure resulting from restrictive pulmonary diseases caused by respiratory muscle weakness, assessing the partial pressure of blood carbon dioxide is crucial to evaluate ventilatory condition.1 arterial blood gas analysis (abga) is known to indicate the partial pressures of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide accurately.1,2 on the other hand, abga values are indicated only at the time point of measurement, and further to this, patients feel pain due to the invasiveness of the method, which may lead to hyperventilation or apnea. |
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