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Aetiology

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Authoring team

  • stress hyperventilation - hysteria
  • hypoxic stimulation to ventilation:
    • alveolar disease
    • right-to-left shunts
    • altitude
  • drug-induced stimulus to hyperventilation
    • early salicylate poisoning in adults - less likely in children

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