Aetiology
- 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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