| Symptoms: The first symptoms produced by a simple asphyxiant are rapid respirations and air hunger. |
| By using opiate analgesics and sedatives to provide comfort to a dying patient, we risk depressing respirations and causing hypotension, which may hasten death. |
| Anna began to audibly wheeze, her respirations shallower and in distress. |
| Several bluesy instrumentals also punctuated this record like many of the respirations between songs. |
| Cheyne-Stokes respirations are often seen in the last days of life and can be part of the normal physiological process of dying. |
| He was lying on a carriage, his respirations were slow, spasmodic, described as agonal. |
