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    Respiratory arrest can be caused by airway obstruction, decreased respiratory drive, or respiratory muscle weakness. Common causes of upper airway obstruction include the tongue falling back and blocking the airway due to loss of muscle tone, or foreign objects in the airway. Lower airway obstruction may result from things being aspirated into the lungs or conditions filling the airspaces like pneumonia. If respiratory arrest is prolonged, cardiac arrest will follow due to hypoxia impairing heart function. Respiratory depression can occur due to issues in the brain, airways, lungs, chest wall, or blood that impair ventilation.

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    Respiratory arrest can be caused by airway obstruction, decreased respiratory drive, or respiratory muscle weakness. Common causes of upper airway obstruction include the tongue falling back and blocking the airway due to loss of muscle tone, or foreign objects in the airway. Lower airway obstruction may result from things being aspirated into the lungs or conditions filling the airspaces like pneumonia. If respiratory arrest is prolonged, cardiac arrest will follow due to hypoxia impairing heart function. Respiratory depression can occur due to issues in the brain, airways, lungs, chest wall, or blood that impair ventilation.

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    Respiratory arrest can be caused by airway obstruction, decreased respiratory drive, or respiratory muscle weakness. Common causes of upper airway obstruction include the tongue falling back and blocking the airway due to loss of muscle tone, or foreign objects in the airway. Lower airway obstruction may result from things being aspirated into the lungs or conditions filling the airspaces like pneumonia. If respiratory arrest is prolonged, cardiac arrest will follow due to hypoxia impairing heart function. Respiratory depression can occur due to issues in the brain, airways, lungs, chest wall, or blood that impair ventilation.

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    RESPIRATORY ARREST

    Respiratory Arrest is caused by airway obstruction, decreased respiratory drive, or respiratory muscle weakness. Airway obstruction may be partial or complete; the most common cause in an unconscious or collapsed person is upper airway obstruction due to posterior tongue displacement into the oropharynx secondary to a loss of muscular tone. Other causes of upper airway obstruction include blood, mucus, vomit, or foreign body; spasm or oedema of the vocal cords, or trauma. Lower airway obstruction may occur after particulate aspiration of gastric contents, widespread severe bronchospasm, or extensive airspace-filling processes (e.g., pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary haemorrhage). If respiratory arrest is prolonged, cardiac arrest quickly follows because progressive hypoxia impairs cardiac function. Respiratory depression may be due to impairment at multiple levels of the respiratory system, including CNS (e.g., drug overdose, vascular lesions, intracranial hypertension due to mass lesions or craniocerebral trauma); upper and lower airways (e.g., near drowning, tumour, haemorrhage, strangulation, asphyxiation, aspiration); alveolar spaces or chest wall, with impairment of the normal physiologic mechanisms of ventilation (e.g., pulmonary oedema, extensive lung infectious processes, pneumothorax, flail chest); or blood and circulatory system (e.g., carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning, profound anaemia, cardio circulatory derangements).

    Signs and Symptoms of Respiratory Distress

    Complaining of difficulty in breathing Tachypnoea Increased work while breathing Use of accessory muscles Abnormal Breath sounds (wheezing, rhonchi, rales, stridor) Cyanosis

    Signs and Symptoms of Respiratory Arrest

    Absence of spontaneous breathing No chest rise and fall Progressive colour change caused by lack of oxygen Unable to feel air coming from mouth and nose

    Management

    GO DR SHAVPU ACBC High concentration of O2, Place in recovery position, Reassurance Secondary Survey ASHICE (Consider) Transport to Hospital

    Professional Handover

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