Clinical features
Clinical features of respiratory failure may include:
- clinical features of the underlying cause of the respiratory failure
- hypoxia - restlessness, confusion and ultimately, coma
- hypercapnia causing:
- drowsiness
- flapping tremor
- warm peripheries
- headaches
- bounding pulse
- papilloedema
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