Philippe Camus, M.D.

Dijon, France

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XXII.e

Respiratory failure from ventilatory depression (of neuromuscular cause or causes)

Presentation may range from restrictive lung dysfunction to acute respiratory failure with an increased PaCO2 and respiratory acidosis and blunted ventilatory reponse to hypoxia and/or hypercarbia. Aspiration, brain damage and death can occur (See PMID 25536092). See also under IXi, IXIe, IXa, IXj, IXs.

Publications

Day R, Bradberry SM, Thomas SHL, Vale JA

Liquid laundry detergent capsules (PODS): a review of their composition and mechanisms of toxicity, and of the circumstances, routes, features, and management of exposure.

Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2019 Nov;57;1053-1063 — 2019 Nov — 1053-1063

Stromberg PE, Burt MH, Rose SR, Cumpston KL, Emswiler MP, Wills BK

Airway compromise in children exposed to single-use laundry detergent pods: a poison center observational case series.

The American journal of emergency medicine 2015 Mar;33;349-51 — 2015 Mar — 349-51