Agonal breathing is when someone who is not getting enough oxygen is gasping for air. It is usually due to cardiac arrest or stroke. It's not true breathing. It's a natural reflex that happens when ...

Gasping for air (agonal breathing) is usually a sign that the heart is no longer circulating oxygenated blood. It’s often a brief and inadequate pattern of breathing. Overview Agonal breathing, or ...

Bodycam footage showing Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack was recently made available to the public following an authorization by the San Francisco County Superior Court. The video was reportedly recorded ...

Nov. 12, 2004 (New Orleans) -- Training 911 dispatchers to ask a few simple questions can enable them to correctly identify agonal breathing and thus increase the likelihood that cardiopulmonary ...

I’ve taken a few CPR classes, and I admit I walked away with the mistaken impression that a person who needs CPR will be unresponsive and not breathing at all. But a common symptom of cardiac arrest ...

Of the nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. who experience a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting each year, less than 6% survive, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine. About ...

A recent study reports the expansion of the donor pool by using kidneys from donors after cardiac death with prolonged agonal time. The duration of the agonal period and hemodynamic instability do not ...

Mitochondrial defects in gene expression have been implicated in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We have now contrasted control brains with low pH versus high pH and showed ...

Scientists are developing AI technology that could be used on smartphones and smart speakers to detect whether someone is having a heart attack.

“The whole sort of explosion of smart devices everywhere—including smart speakers, which this is really well suited to—has enabled this totally new opportunity in so many health domains to try to ...

Decreased brain pH in the patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has been considered to be the result of secondary factors associated with the diseases, such as medication and agonal state.

Agonal breathing is the medical term for gasping for breath. It is usually a symptom of a severe medical emergency, such as stroke or cardiac arrest. Agonal breathing can be brief or it may last for ...