hypoventilation in English

noun
1
breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
The airway is reduced and the person will experience hypoventilation (inadequate breathing).

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1. Max's cardiac arrest was caused by hypoxia from hypoventilation.

2. Pathophysiologically, both toxic effects (cigarette smoke) and alveolar hypoventilation can induce dysfunction of the pulmonary endothelium.

3. Airlessness or collapse of a lung, usually as a result of hypoventilation or obstruction

4. The main risk involved in this method of administration oxygen is retention of arterial CO2 in patients with chronic alveolar hypoventilation.

5. We have then presented data on ventilation and arterial blood, before, during, and after pulmonary resections in 19 cases, showing that hypoventilation exists and is responsible for the respiratory acidosis that always accompanies the increase in CO2 content and in pCO2.

6. In those already suffering from chronic respiratory disorders as obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, sleep apnea, pulmonary hypertension, and obstructive lung disease (asthma, COPD, emphysema) serious deterioration of the pre-existing condition and an early tendency toward adaptation disorders are to be expected, even at lower altitudes.

7. Respiratory Acidosis is primary increase in carbon dioxide partial pressure (P co 2) with or without compensatory increase in bicarbonate (HCO 3 −); pH is usually low but may be near normal.Cause is a decrease in respiratory rate and/or volume (hypoventilation), typically due to central nervous system, pulmonary, or iatrogenic conditions.