KROK 1 2009 – Question 45 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
While eating a child choked on food and aspirated it. The child has severe cough, cyanotic skin and mucous membranes, rapid pulse, infrequent respiration, prolonged expiration. The child has developed the following disorder of the external respiration:
- A. Inspiratory dyspnea under asphyxia
- B. Stenotic respiration
- C. Alternating respiration
- D. Expiratory dyspnea under asphyxia
- E. Biot’s respiration
Hint
Notice which phase of the breathing cycle is prolonged and the rate slowed, and ask what pattern of airway narrowing would produce that.
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