Dyspnea differential diagnosis
|
Dyspnea Microchapters |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Differentiating Dyspnea from other Conditions
- Air hunger the sensation of an urgent need to breathe, sensation that you cannot take in a full breath
- Tachypnea breathing rapidly
- Bradypnea breathing slowly
- Eupnea normal unlabored breathing
- Orthopnea dyspnea that occurs with lying flat
- Trepopnea an abnormal awareness of one's own breathing that is seen in one lateral position but not in the other
- Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea sudden, severe shortness of breath at night that awakens a person from sleep, often with coughing and wheezing.