Department of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, http://www.karim-vfn.cz/

Respiratory insufficiency

The topic of this workshop is respiratory insufficiency, lecture is based on physiology, pathophysiology and clinical picture. Respiratory insufficiency: The condition in which the lungs cannot take in sufficient oxygen or expell sufficient carbon dioxide to meet the needs of the cells of the body. Also called pulmonary insufficiency.

author: Jan Bláha, Jan Bláha | discipline: Emergency Medicine | context: Neodkladná medicína | viewed: 1969x | published on: 7.12.2006 | last modified on: 27.4.2012 |