KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 44 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 62-year-old patient with cerebral haemorrhage was admitted to the neurological department in grave condition. Objectively: increase of respiration depth and rate with its following reduction to apnoea, thereafter respiration cycle restores. What respiration type is it?
- A. Apneustic
- B. Cheyne-Stokes
- C. Kussmaul’s
- D. Gasping
- E. Biot’s
Hint
Focus on the pattern: breathing that gradually waxes and wanes in depth, followed by a pause, then repeats.
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