KROK 1 2013 – Question 7 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A 23-year-old patient has been admitted to a hospital with a craniocerebral injury. The patient is in a grave condition. Respiration is characterized by prolonged convulsive inspiration followed by a short expiration. What kind of respiration is it typical for?
- A. Gasping breath
- B. Biot’s
- C. Kussmaul’s
- D. Apneustic
- E. Cheyne-Stokes
Hint
Ask which brainstem mechanism normally switches inspiration off, and what the breathing pattern looks like when that switch is lost after head injury.
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