Question 23 (part 2) · LDEK · Cardiac arrest
In an adult, breathing in sudden cardiac arrest, described as abnormal, shallow, slow is refferred to as:
- A. Biot’s respiration.
- B. Kussmaul’s respiration.
- C. agonal respiration.
- D. paradoxical respiration.
- E. Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
Hint
Think of the gasping breaths seen in the first minutes of cardiac arrest that must not be mistaken for normal breathing.
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