Anxiety is a normal emotional reaction to stress, but when it reaches overwhelming levels, it can cause physical symptoms that feel threatening, and one among them is hyperventilation.

The body has a set of physiological responses to danger: the pupils dilate, respiration deepens, heart rate and blood pressure rise, muscles tense for action. The gastro-intestinal system reacts also.

THE hyperventilation syndrome, as seen in anxious, tense persons, is characterized by paresthesia of the extremities and circumoral area, sensations of lightheadedness and altered consciousness and ...

Brandon Heggie urges EMTs and medics that, when it comes to treating head injuries with hyperventilation, you must be mindful as to when to start to use it. I remember hearing on many accounts that ...

Objectives: The respiratory compensation point (RCP) marks the onset of hyperventilation (“respiratory compensation”) during incremental exercise. Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely ...

Dysfunctional breathing (DB) and hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) are conditions marked by abnormal respiratory patterns that occur in the absence of overt organic lung pathology. These disorders often ...

Humans can "catch" fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings—by a team of psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of British Columbia—shed new light on how ...

IN their recent experiments on hyperventilation Saltzman et al. 1 found no significant changes in the serum calcium, but in the early work on hyperventilation as a cause of tetany, Grant and Goldman 2 ...