pulmonary disorders
Hyperventilation Syndrome
Symptoms and Signs of Hyperventilation Syndrome
Patients with hyperventilation syndrome present with dyspnea sometimes so severe that they liken it to suffocation. It can be accompanied by agitation and a sense of terror or by symptoms of chest pain, paresthesias (peripheral and perioral), peripheral tetany (eg, stiffness of fingers or arms), and presyncope or syncope or sometimes by a combination of all of these findings. Tetany occurs because Respiratory Alkalosis causes both 