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

Dierksen J, Gonsoulin M, Walterscheid JP

Poor Man's Methadone: A Case Report of Loperamide Toxicity.

The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology 2015 Dec;36;268-70 — 2015 Dec — 268-70