Clinical features
Clinical features of hypercapnia include:
- drowsiness
- flapping tremor
- warm peripheries
- headache
- confusion progressing to coma and death
There may also be a bounding pulse, peripheral vasodilation (warm, sweaty extremities, infection of the eyes), muscle-twitching, and raised intracranial pressure (with papilloedema).
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