MD11.5
category
Dyspnoea
Definition
Dyspnoea is used to describe perceptions of difficulty or distress related to breathing and is recognised as symptomatic of disease when it occurs under inappropriate circumstances. Dyspnoea is a presenting complaint of patients with a wide variety of medical diseases by multiple mechanisms. Dyspnoea is considered acute when it lasts from hours up to 3 weeks, subacute from 3 weeks up to 8 weeks, and chronic dyspnoea lasts more than 8 weeks.
Inclusions
- Orthopnoea
Exclusions
- Transient tachypnoea of newborn
(KB23.1)
Also indexed as
DyspnoeaDyspnoea crisisDyspnoea hyperventilationExertional dyspnoeaNocturnal dyspnoeaOrthopnoeaSOB - [shortness of breath]breathlessnessdifficulty breathingdyspnoea NOSparoxysmal dyspnoeaparoxysmal nocturnal dyspnoearespiration difficultrespiratory distressshort of breathshortness of breathwinded