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The treatment of acute respiratory failure in advanced chronic airways obstruction is strikingly different from that where the lungs are relatively normal and failure develops following some acute nonspecific insult. It is now realized that the patient with underlying chronic airway obstruction rarely requires intubation and can usually be treated successfully with carefully controlled oxygen administration. In contrast, the patient with the “adult respiratory distress syndrome” usually requires early intubation with controlled ventilation. Various differences between these two types of acute respiratory failure are shown in Table 1.
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Ayres, S.M. (1978). Management of Acute Hypoxia and Hypercarbia in the Patient with Advanced Obstructive Airway Disease. In: Critical Care Medicine Manual. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9932-5_2
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