Kussmaul breathing

Kussmaul Breathing is also referred to as air hunger.

Kussmaul breathing is a kind of very deep, gasping, desperate breathing.

He is also credited with describing Kussmaul breathing.

The specific associated breathing pattern is called Kussmaul breathing.

Kussmaul breathing develops as the acidosis grows more severe.

In the setting of diabetic ketoacidosis, this is known as Kussmaul breathing - characterized by long, deep breaths.

An acidotic patient will have more rapid breathing to compensate known as Kussmaul breathing.

Note that Kussmaul breathing occurs only in advanced stages of acidosis, and is fairly rarely reached.

It is this latter type of breathing pattern that is referred to as Kussmaul breathing.

Occasionally, medical literature refers to any abnormal breathing pattern in acidosis as Kussmaul breathing; however, this is inaccurate.

Kussmaul's sign is also an eponymous finding attributable to Kussmaul, and should be distinguished from Kussmaul breathing.

Air Hunger comes from a medical condition, Kussmaul Breathing, which is the rapid, deep, and labored breathing of people who are in a diabetic coma.

Kussmaul breathing is respiratory compensation for a metabolic acidosis, most commonly occurring in diabetics in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Kussmaul breathing is named for Adolph Kussmaul, the 19th century German doctor who first noted it among patients with advanced diabetes mellitus.

This is a result of stimulation to chemoreceptors, which increases alveolar ventilation, leading to respiratory compensation, otherwise known as Kussmaul breathing (a specific type of hyperventilation).

Kussmaul breathing - Very deep and labored breathing with normal or reduced frequency seen in severe Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Kussmaul breathing is a deep and labored breathing pattern often associated with severe metabolic acidosis, particularly diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) but also renal failure.

Duration of fasting, presence or absence of hepatomegaly and Kussmaul breathing provide clues to the differential diagnosis of hyperglycemia in the inborn errors of metabolism.

This definition is also followed by several other sources, including for instance Merriam-Webster, which defines Kussmaul breathing as "abnormally slow deep respiration characteristic of air hunger and occurring especially in acidotic states".

Blood gases on a patient with Kussmaul breathing will show a low partial pressure of CO in conjunction with low bicarbonate because of a forced increased respiration (blowing off the carbon dioxide).

People (usually with type 1 diabetes) may also present with diabetic ketoacidosis, a state of metabolic dysregulation characterized by the smell of acetone, a rapid, deep breathing known as Kussmaul breathing, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, and altered states of consciousness.