Acute Respiratory Failure: Existential Questions in Internal Medicine Fellowship
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https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi/Revisao/229/18/3/2019Keywords:
Emergency Service, Hospital, Respiratory InsufficiencyAbstract
With the aim of reviewing the most recent recommendations
regarding the approach of the patient in acute respiratory
failure in an emergency context, namely those that are the
difficulties and doubts we can find, we present the ABCDE
methodology, the approach to the patient with acute asthma
or acute obstructive pulmonary disease, and also the patient
with acute heart failure, and the differential diagnosis between them. Therefore it is discussed the clinical approach
to the emergent patient in internal medicine and the most frequent etiologies of acute respiratory failure in this context, resorting to clinical cases and the doubts that frequently arise
in this environment, conditioned both by the inherent stress
and the complexity of the unstable patient.
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