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Counting test to determine Shortness of Breath

mgadvocate
mgadvocate
Discusion Post by Catnip2

How to do The Single-Breath-Count Test

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Myasthenia_Gravis/forum/14402384-counting-test-respiratory-function
bweeds
bweeds
bweeds
breathing issues in Guillian Barre and Myasthenia Gravis
Posted on 06/10/12, 01:44 pm
This is an excellent review of what is known about the presentation, evaluation, and outcome of patients with Gillian Barre and Myasthenia Gravis:

http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/0...

Thanks , Rhonda, for posting the link.
bweeds
bweeds
This is an excellent review of outcomes of Gillian Barre and MG patients with breathing problems and has information about the single breath counting test.

http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/09.06/09.06.1016.pdf

Thanks Rhonda for the link.
bweeds
bweeds
one of the studies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20825771
another of the studies: http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/09.06/09.06.1016.pdf
(in the paragraph entitled clnical exam for respiratory failure)

When using the metronome, the metronome is to be set at two counts per second--but again that is for study correlation, not clinical decision making.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8037392