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Cheyne-Stokes is just a respiratory pattern though...not a sound. I looked it up and in Mosby's it just describes what a death rattle sounds like and that it is most often hear with agonal respirations, but didn't give any other name for it. Hope you remember the word you were trying to think of though. I hate when that happens!!
Indeed.
I only know it as Death Rattle. Just like Death Dump. There is no other way to describe what has been hanging out in someone's colon for the past 80 years other than death dump. Maybe the rattle happens after the dump cause there is now room????
I wish you luck in your quest and if you find out a technical term for either please let us know!
I just looked up "death rattle" in my Taber's Medical Dictionary and I was surprised to see it listed there between "death rate" and "death with dignity":
"death rattle. A sound heard in the throat of the dying. Caused by the accumulation of mucus in the throat due to absence of cough reflex. The breath moving through the mucus makes the 'rattle' sound."
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I feel like a total goof for having to ask this but tonight neither myself or another nurse could remember the proper term for "death rattles". It was a very high pressure night so maybe our brains were just over loaded as we had 4 dying residents and a death. I would appreciate an answer to this, dumb as it is?????:imbar