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Breathing Problems |
Dyspnea; Shortness of Breath; Tachypnea |
In medicine, hyperventilation (or hyperpnea) is the state of breathing faster or deeper (hyper) than necessary, and thereby reducing the carbon dioxide concentration of the blood below normal. This causes various symptoms such as numbness or tingling in the hands, feet and lips, lightheadedness, dizziness, headache, chest pain, slurred speech and sometimes fainting. The related symptom tachypnea (or "tachypnoea") (Greek: "rapid breathing") is characterized by rapid breathing and is not ide ...
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Resources
- ACP Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer: Shortness of Breath (American College of Physicians)
- American Lung Association
- Atlas of the Body: The Respiratory System -- Structure Detail (American Medical Association)
- Blood Gas Tests (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Breathing Problems (Medline Plus)
- Breathing Problems
- Breathing Problems (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Dyspnea (National Institutes of Health)
- Dyspnea (Alliance for Lung Cancer)
- Helping Your Child Breathe Easier (American Association for Respiratory Care)
- How Do the Lungs Work? (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Living with Dyspnea -- 4 Ways to Breathe Easier (National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center) - Links to PDF File
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- PDQ-Supportive Care-Patients: Superior Vena Cava Syndrome (National Cancer Institute)
- Positions to Reduce Shortness of Breath (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Shortness of Breath (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Shortness of Breath (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
- Shortness of Breath in a Child or Infant (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Spirometry (National Lung Health Education Program)
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