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1
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What are in the walls of trachea and bronchi?

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Cartilage

2
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What is in the wall of bronchioles?

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Smooth muscle

3
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What is in the upper airways?

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Nose, accessory air sinuses, nasopharynx and larynx

4
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What is in the lower airways?

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Trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, terminal bronchioles, alveoli.

5
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Define upper resp infections?

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Acute inflammatory process that affects muscous membranes of the resp tract

6
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Upper resp infection examples?

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Rhinitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis and sinusitis.

7
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What are the symptoms of an upper airway infection?

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Malaise, headache, sore throat, discharge.

8
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Upper resp infections are commonly…

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Viral but can get secondary bacterial infections

9
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How do virus’s cause symptoms?

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Attach to resp mucosa, invading tissue causing necrosis, inflam and swelling

10
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Define pneumonia

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Inflammation of lung parenchyma caused by viral/bacterial infection where airsacs fill with pus& ?solid

11
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How does pneumonia work?

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Consolidation of affected part, exudate with inflam cells and fibrin in alveolar air spaces.

12
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What causes pneumonia?

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infectious agents, inhaled chemicals, chest wall trauma.

13
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Clinical features of pneumonia?

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Fever, rigours, SOB, pleuritic chest pain, purulent sputum, cough.

14
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Morphology (forms) of pneumonia?

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Lobar, multifocal/lobular (bronchopenumonia) or interstitial (focal diffuse)

15
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What are the 6 categoies/settings for pneumonia?

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Community acquired, hospital acquired, aspirational pneumonia, chronic pneumonia, necrotising pneumonia/lung abscesses. in immunocompromised

16
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Which setting is relatively common?

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Community

17
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What is the most common cause for community acquired?

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Strep.pnemonia

18
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What 3 organisms cause community acquired?

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Step. pnuemoniae, haemophilus influenzae, S.aureus

19
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Morphology of community acquired?

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Lobar or bronchopneumonia

20
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What is hospital acquired pneumonia also know as?

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nosocomial pneumonia

21
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Define hospital acquired pneumonia

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Any pneumonia contracted by patient at least 48-72 hrs postadmission

22
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What organism usually cause hospital acquired?

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Gram neg bacilli and S.aureas

23
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Which pneumonia can be severe/fatal & is most common cause of death in ITU?

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Hospital acquired pneumonia

24
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Symptoms of hospital acquired pneumonia?

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Fever, ^WCC, cough with purulent sputum. Chest x-ray changes

25
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How does aspiration pneumonia develop?

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After inhalation of foreign material. Elderly, strokes, dementia, anaesthetic

26
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Morphology of aspiration pneumonia

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Right middle and right lower lobe

27
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What organisms causing aspiration pneumonia?

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Oral flora +/- other bacteria

28
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Define obstructive disorders?

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Partial or complete obstruction at any level from the trachea to bronchioles

29
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Examples of obstructive disorders?

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Asthma, COPD (Emphysema and chronic bronchitis), Bronchiectasis

30
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What is extrinsic asthma?

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Responds to inhaled antigen - atopic

31
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What is intrinsic asthma?

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Non-immune, cold, exercise, aspirin.

32
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What happens in the early phase of asthma?

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Bronc constriction, ^ mucus, Vasodilation

33
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What happens in late phase reaction?

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Inflam, epithelial damage, more bronc-conc

34
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Morphology of asthma?

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Lung overinflation + small areas of atelectasis. Mucus plug in bronchi/bronchioles. Airway remodelled

35
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Define chronic bronchitis

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Persistent cough with sputum production, for at least 2 consecutive years, no cause found.

36
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What causes chronic bronchitis (obstructive disorder)

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Long-standing irritation from inhaled substances (e.g. smoke, dust, cotton, silica). 2) Hypertrophy of submuc glands& ^goblet cells. 3) mucus hypersecretion

37
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Morphology of chronic bronchitis?

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Mucous membrane hyperaemia, swelling, oedema. Excess mucus. Bronchioles narrowed (mucus plug, inflam&fibrosis).

38
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Clinical signs of CB?

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Persistent cough, productive sputum. Dyspnea on exertion. Hypercapnia, hypoxemia.

39
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What can chronic bronchitis lead to?

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Cor pulmonale, cadiac failure, atypical metaplasia/dysplasia

40
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Define dyspnea?

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Difficulty breathing

41
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Define hypercapnia?

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CO2 retention

42
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Define hypoxemia?

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Low O2 conc

43
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Define Cor Pulmonale

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Abnormal enlargementof right side of heart as result of lung/pulmonary vessel disease

44
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Define emphysema?

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Irreversible enlargement of the airspaces, distal to terminal bronchiole, wall destruction without obvious fibrosis

45
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Types of emphysema?

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Centriacinar / panacinar / paraseptl / irregular

46
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Symptoms of emphysema?

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Dyspnoea, cough, wheezing, weightloss, expiratory limitaions.

47
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What are pink puffers?

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People who die from cor pumonale, congestive heart failureor pneumothorax

48
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Morphology of emphysema?

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Largeapical bullae or blebs, voluminous lungs and large alveoli.

49
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What substances are imbalances in emphysema?

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Protease-antiprotease. Oxidants and anti-oxidants

50
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Define bronchiectasis

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Permanent destruction and dilation of airways associated with severe infections/obstructions

51
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Morphology of bronchiectasis

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Dilated (as walls have been destroyed), and inflamed. Loss of cilla, increase mucus.

52
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Define aetiology

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Causes of a disease

53
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Aetiology of bronchiectasis

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CF, Kartageners, post infectious: TB, measles, bronchial obstruction (TB/FB)

54
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What is kartageners disease?

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Defects in cilla action

55
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Symptoms of bronchiectasis?

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Persistent cough, purulent sputum +++, haemoptysis

56
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What is haemoptysis?

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Coughing up blood

57
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Define restrictive lung disease

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Reduced expansion with decreased total lung capacity, inflammation and fibrosis of the pulmonary connective tissue.

58
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Define pneumonitis

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Inflamof walls of alveoli

59
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With restrictive lung disease FVC…

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is reduced. (amount of air that can be blown out after maximal inspiration.

60
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Clinical features of restrictive lung disease?

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Dyspnea, tachypenea, end-inspiratory crackles. Cyanosis without wheezing. May lead to cor pulmonale.

61
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Morphology of restrictive lung disease. Xrays?

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Bilateral infiltrative lesions - small nodules, irregular lines (ground glass shadows). Scarring and gross destruction of lung -> honeycomb lung.

62
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What disease results in ground-glass shadows and honeycomb lungs?

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Restrictive lung disease

63
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Give 3 restrictive disorders

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Chest wall abnormalities, connective tissue disorders and penumonconioses

64
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What are the two vascular disorders effecting breathing?

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Pulmonary embolism and pulmonary oedema

65
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Define pulmonary embolism

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blockage of main or branch pulmonary artery by an embolus.

66
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Where are emboli that cause pulmonary embolisms normally from?

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DVT of the leg (95% of cases)

67
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What does the body compromise when suffering from pulmonary embolism?

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Respiratory compromise and haemodynamic compromise

68
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Morphology of pulmonary embolism?

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Central/peripheral emboli, pulmonary haemorrhage or pulmonary infarction

69
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What is the clinical course for vascular embolism

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Abrupt onset pleuritic chest pain, SOB, hypoxia, ^ pulmonary resistance -> right ventricular failure.

70
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Define pulmonary oedema

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Accumulation of fluid in the air spaces and paenchyma of the lungs

71
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What is pulmonary oedema due to?

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Alveolar injury, infections, shock/trauma.

72
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What are the oedema of undetermined origin?

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Neurogenic/high altitude

73
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What causes haemodynamic oedema?

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^ venous pressure (left ventricle failure), decreased oncotic pressure (from nephrotic syndrome) or liver failure.

74
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Define dependent oedema

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Initial fluid accumulation in basal regions

75
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Morphology of pulmonary oedema

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Engorged alveolar capilaries, intra-alveolar granular pink precipitate, alveolar microhaemorrhages, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, heavy wet lungs

76
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Clinical features of pulmonary oedema?

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SOB, punk frothy sputum, CXR findings.

77
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Name the two expansion disorders

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pneumothorax and atelectasis

78
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Define pneumothorax

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Air in pleural cavity -> collapse lung

79
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What ^ the risk of pneumothorax?

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Emphysema, asthma, TB, trauma and idiopathic

80
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Define Atelectasis

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Incomplete expansion of lungs which reduces oxygenation and predisposes to infection. REVERSIBLE

81
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What are the two types of respiratory failure?

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Type I- hypoxia with normal or low PCO2

Type II- hypoxia with high PCO2

82
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What causes type I resp failure?

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Pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis

83
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What causes type II resp failure?

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Asthma, COPD, reduced resp drive, neuromuscular disease, thoracic wall disease (kyphoscoliosis).`

84
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Which type of resp disease should caution with O2 be taken?

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Type II respiratory failure.