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Acute type 2 respiratory failure

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Possible causes include:

  • severe acute asthma - as the patient becomes exhausted type 2 respiratory failure occurs
  • acute epiglottitis
  • respiratory muscle paralysis; a number of aetiologies including Guillain-Barre syndrome

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