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Acute Respiratory Failure

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The Very Old Critically Ill Patients

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In this chapter the reader will learn the basics of age-related changes in respiratory physiology and in inflammatory response and immune function pertaining to acute respiratory failure. The different clinical manifestation, susceptibility to acute lung injury, response to treatments of acute respiratory failure (ARF), and physiology of weaning that characterize the elderly, as compared to younger patients, will also be reviewed here.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Marta Lorente-Ros

  2. CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

    Antonio Artigas & José A. Lorente

  3. Critical Care Center, Corporació Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Tauli, and Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain

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Lorente-Ros, M., Artigas, A., Lorente, J.A. (2022). Acute Respiratory Failure. In: Flaatten, H., Guidet, B., Vallet, H. (eds) The Very Old Critically Ill Patients. Lessons from the ICU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94133-8_29

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