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What is Cheyne-Stokes?

What is Cheyne-Stokes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) An abnormal pattern of breathing involving apnea, characteristic of those in a coma or suffering cardiac or cerebral episodes.
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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.

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