Respiratory

Cheyne-Stokes breathing

Crescendo–decrescendo breathing alternating with central apneas or hypopneas.

Educational reference, not a diagnostic tool. A scored event, an elevated index and a clinical diagnosis are different things. Follow your facility’s scoring manual, notification policies and clinical protocols.

Often seen with heart failure.
Document cycle pattern and notify per protocol.

Waveforms

Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern

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Respiratory

Synthetic adult PSG teaching tracing showing four crescendo-decrescendo breathing cycles separated by 15-second central pauses across a 240-second window. — Illustrative teaching waveformBreaths grow, then shrink, between recurring central pauses.Source: Original synthetic teaching signals. Not patient data. Not a diagnostic tracing.