title: Acute respiratory failure 1: assessing patients.
abstract: This is the first in a two-part unit on acute respiratory failure. Part 1 explores respiratory failure and its causes and identifies ways of recognising patients in acute respiratory failure.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Higgins
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guest
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology