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Could you please explain to me what hypostatic pneumonia is? is it a lung inflammation caused by lack of mobility in some hospital patients or a lung inflammation caused by an infection? i do not have the condition myself?
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People need to periodically cough and take deep breaths to keep their lungs fully inflated. Most do so automatically, unconsciously. Those who are weak and/or debilitated often cannot do so (too weak, too sleepy). The bottom of their lungs partially collapse, often with eventual development of pneumonia
Answered 4/13/2021
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