Cheyne-Stokes Respiration

Cheyne-Stokes respiration is a form of breathing where breaths become deeper and then shallower in cycles, often with some periods of no breathing at all (called apnoea). It most usually occurs in association with states of coma, and may be the herald of approaching death.
 
 

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