Types of breathing
Dyspnoea
- Uncomfortable awareness of breathing
Tachypnoea
- Rapid breathing
- Seen in anxiety, fever, heart failure, acidosis
Hyperventilation
- Increased depth of ventilation
- Seen in anxiety, Metabolic acidosis, infections
Bradypnea
- Slow breathing rate
Orthopnoea
- Breathless on lying down
- Seen in heart failure, asthma, pleural effusion
Cheyne Stokes respiration
- Periods of rapid breathing and periods of pause
- Each phase lasting generally beyond 30 seconds
Gasping
- Deep irregularly breaths
Kussmaul’s
- Deep laboured breathing generally seen with metabolic acidosis
- Seen in Diabetic ketoacidosis, Uremia