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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers obtained agonal breathing recordings from 911 emergency calls from 2009 to 2017 that were provided by Public Health-Seattle and King County, Division of Emergency Medical Services.

Although a maximum agonal time of 1–2 h after withdrawal of life-supporting treatment is generally accepted, 5 Reid et al. 3 report their experience using controlled DCD donor kidneys with ...

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 ...