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Non-Ventilator Management Of Respiratory Failure: The Ventimask, William B. Hunt Jr. Jan 1973

Non-Ventilator Management Of Respiratory Failure: The Ventimask, William B. Hunt Jr.

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

This paper will detail the conservative management of acute respiratory failure in patients with chronic respiratory failure due to chronic bronchitis and emphysema. It is important to recognize that this is a very specific group of patients. They have had a chronic hypoxia and hypercarbia for months or years preceding their current episode of acute respiratory failure.

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