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dyspnea

vr.tr.dyspnea · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain dyspnoea and its patterns in general terms, relay causes, assessment and management principles from clinical sources, identify emergency warning signs, and route personal symptoms to emergency services and clinicians.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain dyspnoea and its patterns in general terms, relay causes, assessment and management principles from clinical sources, identify emergency warning signs, and route personal symptoms to emergency services and clinicians.

The subjective sensation of breathlessness or difficulty breathing, ranging from mild breathlessness on effort to acute distress, arising from respiratory, cardiac, metabolic, neuromuscular and psychological causes; dyspnoea has recognised patterns such as orthopnoea when lying flat, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, bendopnoea when bending and platypnoea when upright, and acute or sudden dyspnoea is a medical emergency.

What it is for: Not applicable; a symptom.

It can be explain the symptom and patterns; relay causes and assessment principles; identify emergency signs; route personal symptoms to care.

Distinguishing features

Subjective symptom

Many causes across systems

Positional and temporal patterns

Emergency when acute

What it looks like

Not a visible object; laboured or rapid breathing and reported breathlessness.

How it is recognised

Sensation of difficult breathing

Patterns by posture and timing

Tachypnoea is fast breathing observed; hypoxia is low oxygen measured

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

abnormal breathing

is a kind of - in general terms

symptom

is caused by - among other conditions

heart failure

is assessed by - and tests

clinical examination

In practice

Families and kinds

acute dyspnoea

chronic dyspnoea and dyspnoea on effort

orthopnoea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea

bendopnoea

platypnoea and platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome

psychogenic breathlessness

Identifiers

ICD-10 R06.0 dyspnoea

MeSH D004417 dyspnea

Standards and regulation

Clinical guidelines on breathlessness assessment

Emergency care standards

Palliative care guidance on breathlessness

Failure modes and hazards

Delayed emergency care

Missed cardiac or pulmonary causes

Agents giving personal medical advice

Also called

platypnea-orthodeoxia syndromeorthopneaacute dyspneaBendopneadyspnea on effortParoxysmal nocturnal dyspnoeabreathing crisisplatypneaTrepopneaDysoxie

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.dyspnea

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What dyspnoea is.

General information.

Definition

Definition and patterns.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is dyspnoea, and what patterns such as orthopnoea and bendopnoea are recognised? definition
  2. Is the user experiencing sudden or severe breathlessness now, which needs emergency services? boundary

Causes

Causes.

Causes

Causes.

  1. What causes dyspnoea across respiratory, cardiac and other systems, in general terms? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific condition? action
Clinical Assessment and management.

Clinical.

Assessment

Assessment.

Assessment

Assessment.

  1. How do clinicians assess dyspnoea, including scales and tests? provenance
  2. Is the presentation free of personal medical advice? boundary

Management

Management principles.

Management

Management.

  1. What management principles apply by cause, including palliative approaches, in general terms? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Patterns Specific patterns.

Clinical.

Positional

Positional patterns.

Positional

Positional.

  1. What do orthopnoea, platypnoea and bendopnoea indicate, per clinical sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific pattern? action

Nocturnal

Nocturnal dyspnoea.

Nocturnal

Nocturnal.

  1. What is paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, and what does it suggest? provenance
  2. Which entry fits heart failure? action
Context Burden and research.

Sources.

Burden

Burden.

Burden

Burden.

  1. How common is breathlessness, and what do studies report about its impact, with sources? measurement
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Research

Research.

Research

Research.

  1. What are current research directions in the mechanisms and treatment of breathlessness? provenance
  2. Which entry fits respiratory medicine? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should orthopnoea and other patterns be separate entries?
  • How should guidelines be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming patterns and a syndrome; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON