You observe a patient's breathing pattern as very irregular, with periods of breathing interspersed with long periods of apnea. Which of the following terms would you use in charting this obser-vation?
a. Apneustic breathing
b. Biot's respiration
c. Cheyne-Stokes breathing
d. Kussmaul's breathing
ANS: B
Biot's respiration is similar to Cheyne-Stokes respiration, except that tidal volumes are of identi-cal depth.
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