Bradypnea

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Bradypnea (Gr. Βραδύϛ, slow, sluggish; πνοή, breath, breath) is pathologically slowed breathing (less than eight (in adults) to twelve breaths per minute) that occurs when the respiratory center is impaired , e.g. B. in opiate poisoning .

Occur

Bradypnea occurs with deep sleep and meditation , with mechanical or inflammatory damage to the respiratory center , pharmacologically with opiates, hypnotics , benzodiazepines and loop diuretics (due to potassium loss), and metabolically with coma diabeticum .

Diagnosis and therapy

Bradypnea can be determined by inspection or by apparatus (surveillance monitor). Blood gas analysis and toxic screening can be used to clarify the cause . Cranial computed tomography is used if cerebral damage is suspected.

The differential diagnosis differentiates between cerebral damage, intoxication and deep hypothermia (less than 30 ° body temperature). Correspondingly, an operation, safeguarding the vital functions and a slow warm-up can be considered as therapy.

See also

literature

  • Hanswerner Bause, Eberhard Kochs, Jens Scholz, Jochen Schulte am Esch, Thomas Standl, Christian Werner: Dual series anesthesia: intensive medicine, emergency medicine, pain therapy. Thieme, 2011. ISBN 978-3-13-152484-3 . P. 563
  • Klaus-Peter W. Schaps, Oliver Kessler, Ulrich Fetzner: The second - compact: Health disorders - GK2. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-46342-9 . P. 146f.
  • Lothar Ullrich: Thiemes intensive care and anesthesia. Thieme, 2005. ISBN 978-3-13-130910-5 . P. 88

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus-Peter W. Schaps, Oliver Kessler, Ulrich Fetzner: The second - compact: health disorders - GK2. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-46342-9 . P. 146f.
  2. ↑ a b Lothar Ullrich: Thiemes intensive care and anesthesia. Thieme, 2005. ISBN 978-3-13-130910-5 . P. 88