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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cyanide poisoning
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Epiglottitis
- Ethylene glycol
- Foreign body aspiration
- Hemothorax
- Malathion
- Myocardial infarction
- Parathion
- Pulmonary embolism
- Tension pneumothorax
Common Causes
- Birth asphyxia
- High altitude
- Methemoglobinemia
- Pulmonary stenosis
- Respiratory distress syndrome
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia