title: [An external respiratory failure classification: scientific rationale for its clinical use].
abstract: The paper presents an external respiratory failure (ERF) classification, a scientific rationale for its use in the clinical practice of departments of different profiles. The setting up of interclinical functional diagnostic laboratories and preventive health care facilities for the preclinical diagnosis of ERF is substantiated. The introduction of the classification of ERF into wide clinical practice is intended to form a social order for the design and purchase of diagnostic equipment for therapeutic-and-prophylactic institutions and to stimulate researches in clinical respiratory physiology, and to improve physicians' knowledge of this section of clinical science.
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Tetenev
mesh_terms: D019719:Diagnostic Equipment; D003954:Diagnostic Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006275:Health Facility Planning; D006801:Humans; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D012138:Respiratory Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012426:Russia; D012720:Severity of Illness Index