An unusual cause of respiratory alkalosis.

Campbell, L A; Schwartz, S H · Chest · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A 56-year-old man with a longstanding tracheostomy presented to the hospital with upper GI bleeding and was found to have a profound respiratory alkalosis. The cause of this patient's involuntary hyperventilation was hiccuping complicated by the absence of glottic closure.

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