ABNORMALITIES IN RATE AND RHYTHM OF BREATHING

Question 1

Periods of deep breathing alternate with periods of apnea (no breathing). Children and aging people normally may show this pattern in sleep
-Causes include; heart failure, uremia, drug-induced respiratory depression, and brain
damage(both sides)

Answer 1

Cheyne-Stokes Breathing​

Question 2

in obstructive lung disease, expiration is prolonged because narrowed
airways increase the resistance to air flow. Causes; asthma, chronic bronchitis, and COPD

Answer 2

Obstructive Breathing​

Question 3

Causes; exercise, anxiety, and metabolic acidosis.
-In the comatose patient consider infarction, hypoxia, or hypoglycemia affecting midbrain or
pons

Answer 3

Rapid Deep Breathing (Hyperpnea, Hyperventilation)​

Question 4

deep breathing due to metabolic acidosis (fast, normal or slow)

Answer 4

Kussmaul Breathing

Question 5

Unpredictable irregularity. Breaths may be shallow or
deep, and stop for short periods.

Causes; respiratory depression, and brain damage (medullary
level)

Answer 5

Ataxic Breathing (Biot’s Breathing)​