Explain Kussmaul breathing.
What will be an ideal response?
Kussmaul breathing is rapid, deep, and labored breathing commonly seen in people who have ketoacidosis or who are in a diabetic coma. Kussmaul breathing is a compensatory mechanism used to increase expiration of CO2, thereby decreasing pH to normal. Kussmaul breathing is named after Adolph Kussmaul, the 19th century German doctor who first noted it.
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