eMedicine Hyperventilation Syndrome (Health/Neurological_Disorders)
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Description: Condition in which minute ventilation exceeds metabolic demands, resulting in hemodynamic and chemical changes that produce characteristic symptoms. Information about this disorder including possible treatment.Hyperventilation Syndrome Hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) represents a relatively common ED presentation that most clinicians readily recognize. However, the syndrome has defied precise definition and explanation of the underlying pathophysiology for the past 100 years.As classically defined, HVS is a condition in which minute ventilation exceeds metabolic demands, resulting in hemodynamic and chemical changes that produce characteristic dysphoric symptoms, which can be reproduced in these patients by inducing a drop in arterial pCO 2 through voluntary hyperventilation. Recently, however

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