id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016973-s32jp0ej Menon, Nithya Respiratory Diseases of Pregnancy 2016-07-21 .txt text/plain 2462 160 43 Understanding the underlying pulmonary physiologic changes that come with pregnancy as well as those conditions which are unique to the pregnant patient will help arrive at the correct diagnosis and management. Recognizing that the gravid patient has other physiologic changes that contribute to decreased respiratory reserve, increased risk of aspiration, infection, and difficult airway can help in managing these patients acutely. The most common causes of non-cardiogenic acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy are the use of tocolytic agents, fluid overload, preeclampsia, sepsis, trauma or following aspiration of gastric contents [6, 7] . A partial pressure of carbon dioxide within the normal range of 36-40 on an arterial blood gas can be a early sign of imment respiratory failure in the gravid patient. Some of the risk factors for pneumonia in pregnancy include anemia, asthma, antepartum corticosteroids given to enhance fetal lung maturity, and the use of tocolytic agents to induce labor [25] . ./cache/cord-016973-s32jp0ej.txt ./txt/cord-016973-s32jp0ej.txt