Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Hypoxemia and Chronic Respiratory Diseases(Emergency Treatment in Respirotory Diseases)

141 cases with acute respiratory failure were studied. All cases had chronic respiratory diseases. 1/2 of all patients had chronic hypoxemia. The most, frequent cause of aute respiratory failure was respiratory infection. The mortality rate was as follows, (1) Patients treated with ventilator: 43% (2) Patients treated with oxygen etc: 16% (3) All of the patients: 23% Weaning from ventilator was succeeded more frequently in patients with high ADL (possible to eat and to keep sitting position by themselves) and high serum albumin (>3.5g/dl), It was suggested that we should encourage intubated patients to take nutrition and examine respiratory rehabilitation