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Acute Respiratory Insufficiency and Ventilatory Support

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Gas exchange depends on the state of the lungs—the exchange organs—and two pumps, the heart and the respiratory pump. The heart pumps blood through the lungs to exchange with the air brought into the lungs by the second pump, the ventilatory pump. Failure of any one of these three elements, or insufficiency and deficiency in a combination of these elements can result in respiratory failure. Many errors in patient management result from concentration on one element of the system to the exclusion of the others. Effective therapy depends on analysis of the element or elements which are not functioning adequately and providing therapy appropriate to the specific failures.

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  1. Richard M. Peters
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  1. Beijing Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Medical Center, Beijing, China

    Yingkai Wu MB. ChB. (Professor of Thoracic Surgery) (Professor of Thoracic Surgery)

  2. University of California at San Diego, California, USA

    Richard M. Peters M.D. (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering)

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© 1986 Science Press, Beijing and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

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Peters, R.M. (1986). Acute Respiratory Insufficiency and Ventilatory Support. In: Wu, Y., Peters, R.M. (eds) International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4259-2_7

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