This state is known as hypercapnia—sometimes called hypercarbia or carbon dioxide retention. The terms hypercarbia and ...

A very reasonable explanation for the variability of physiologic response to hypoventilation with hypoxia and hypercarbia may lie in individual differences in pulmonary vascular reactivity.

Avoid other known factors that increase pulmonary vasoconstriction such as acidosis, hypercarbia, or hypothermia. Inhaled nitric oxide may be useful in decreasing the pulmonary vasoconstriction.

All three patients had mild hypercarbia with maximum ETco2 of 49, 53,and 52 mm Hg Irvani and Wald 24 6-yr-old girl with Treacher Collins syndrome and severe micrognathia A bolus dose of ...