KROK 1 2016 – Question 77 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
An unconscious young man in the state of morphine intoxication has been delivered into an admission room. The patient’s respiration is slow and shallow due to suppression of the respiratory center. What kind of respiratory failure occurred in this case?
- A. Diffusion
- B. Perfusion
- C. Ventilatory disregulation
- D. Ventilatory restriction
- E. Ventilatory obstruction
Hint
Ask which link in the chain from brainstem control to alveolar gas exchange is primarily impaired by this opioid.
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