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Acute Respiratory Failure in Infants with Bronchiolitis
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Acute Lung InjuryAsthmaAcute Pulmonary InfectionAcute Respiratory FailureRespiratory Distress Syndrome (Pulmonary Critical Care)Respiratory DiseasesMedicinePediatricsRespiratory InfectionSepsisPediatric Lung DiseaseLung MechanicsRespiratory Distress Syndrome (Neonatal Medicine)Pulmonary MedicineInfectious Respiratory DiseaseSequential Arterial PhPo2 LevelsNeonatal Pulmonary Physiology
Bronchiolitis, an acute pulmonary infection of infants, is reported to result in acute respiratory failure and death in approximately 5 per cent of hospitalized cases. Sequential arterial pH, Pco and Po2 levels, determined in 30 infants with bronchiolitis, revealed an uncompensated respiratory acido