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Respiratory Muscle Fatigue

1995; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4899-1016-5_32

2214-8019

David K. McKenzie, F. Bellemare,

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research

Ventilatory failure may accompany a variety of pulmonary and neuromuscular diseases. There has been much controversy about whether this failure is due to respiratory muscle fatigue at peripheral sites or a failure of drive at sites within the central nervous system. The chapter reviews this topic.