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Exam questionKROK 1Pharmacy · 2008

A patient has been suffering from diabetes mellitus for 10 years. He was deli vered to a hospital in grave condition. On the 2nd day of treatment his condition grew significantly worse: he lapsed into a coma, there appeared noisy deep breathing. Deep inspirations took turns with forced expirations with assistance of expiratory muscles. What form of respiration disorder is it?

Answer options

  1. Tachypnea
  2. Biot’s respiration
  3. Cheyne-Stokes respiration
  4. Kussmaul’s respiration
  5. Stenotic respiration
Correct answer

Kussmaul’s respiration

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