The following list of dangers and risks is not exhaustive but may include: Headache, muscle cramps, cough, Cheyne-Stokes breathing, digestive disturbances, dehydration, poor sleep, and intense fatigue. |
This rhythmic waxing and waning of breathing, with intermittent periods of apnea, is called Cheyne-Stokes breathing, after the physicians who first described it. |
Cheyne-Stokes respiration was considered in the presence of at least three consecutive cycles of a cyclical crescendo-decrescendo change in breathing amplitude. |
Three years later, in the Peabody Home, I sat beside her listening to Cheyne-Stokes breathing. |
Cheyne-Stokes respirations are often seen in the last days of life and can be part of the normal physiological process of dying. |
And nothing has happened to astound or flabbergast him, to send him sprawling with Cheyne-Stokes breathing. |