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Breathing patterns Flashcards

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Agonal

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Intermittent prolong gasps

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Apnea

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No breathing

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Apneustic

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Deep, gasping inspiration with brief, partial expiration

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Biot’s respiration

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Chaotic breathing pattern. Irregular rate and tidal volume that deteriorates

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Cheyene-Stokes respiration

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Irregular

Breaths increase and decrease in depth & rate with periods of apnea

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Kussmaul’s breathing

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Deep and fast respirations

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Paradoxical breathing

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Abdominal walls move inward on inspiration and outward on expiration
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Part or all of the chest walls in with inhalation and out with exhalation

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Periodic breathing

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Breathing oscillates between periods of rapid, deep breathing and slow, shallow breathing without prolonged periods of apnea

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