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hypercarbia

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hypercarbia /hy·per·car·bia/ (-kahr´be-ah) hypercapnia.
hypercarbia.
hypercarbia
hypercapnia.
hypercapnia, hypercarbia
excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, indicated by an elevated Pco2 as determined by blood gas analysis, and resulting in respiratory acidosis.
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The inevitable co-existence of hypercarbia sets the scene for disaster via cardiac depression--predisposition to arrhythmias and a hyperadrenergic state.
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Weese-Mayer and co-workers suggested that congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is diagnosed in individuals with the following: * Hypoventilation with absent or negligible ventilatory sensitivity to hypercarbia and absent or variable sensitivity to hypoxemia.
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Some patients may also have pulmonary blebs, which spontaneously burst and cause a pneumothorax, resulting in hypercarbia, haemodynamic instability, and even venous gas embolism.
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