McKenzie D K, Bellemare F
Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 1995;384:401-14. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1016-5_32.
Ventilatory failure may accompany a variety of pulmonary and neuromuscular diseases. There has been much controversy about whether this failure is due to respiratory muscle fatigue at peripheral sites or a failure of drive at sites within the central nervous system. The chapter reviews this topic.