A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that during simulated full burial ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of chronic, progressive lung diseases that make breathing difficult. The hallmark symptoms are a chronic cough, shortness of breath, and ...

Background: The pathogenesis of daytime hypercapnia (PaCO 2 ≥ 45 mm Hg) may be directly linked to the existence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) per se, although only some patients with OSAS ...

You have shortness of breath, or dyspnea, when you have a hard time breathing. You may notice tightness in your chest, or feel like you're suffocating. If it's new or can't be explained, call your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Oxygenation and ventilation were measured in the first 24 hours after arrest. The probability of survival went ...

Clinicians seemed to be most concerned with insufficient oxygenation in patients with hypercapnia risk, rather than the dangers of excessive oxygenation. Overuse of oxygen is more common than underuse ...

To define "steady-state" chronic hypercapnia in man, we studied 20 patients with stable carbon dioxide tensions from 34 to 103 mm of mercury and with no apparent complicating disorders. The whole-body ...

Hypercapnia, also called hypercarbia, arises from having too much carbon dioxide in the blood. It typically happens with hypoxia, which is when there is not enough oxygen in the body. This article ...

You may have heard of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the context of climate change, yet did you know that high levels of CO2 in your blood can also be dangerous? This condition is known as hypercapnia, which ...

Hypercapnic patients were best separated from normocapnic patients using thresholds for FVC% of 56% predicted and 33% predicted for FEV1%. Hypercapnia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...