For example: char a; a= getchar(); The function getchar() reads a single character from the standard input device, the keyboard being assumed because that is the standard input device, and assigns it to the variable a.
This excludes acute and chronic respiratory failure (518.84), acute respiratory distress (518.82), acute respiratory failure following trauma and surgery (518.51), chronic respiratory failure (518.83), respiratory arrest (799.1), and respiratory failure, newborn (770.84). This applies to respiratory failure NOS.
Most cases of acute respiratory. distress syndrome are associated with pneumonia or sepsis. It is estimated that 7.1 percent of all patients admitted. to an intensive care unit and 16.1 percent of all patients on mechanical ventilation develop acute lung injury or acute. respiratory distress syndrome.