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Scientific Review: Avoiding Hyperventilation

Author(s) -

Roy Fielding,

Francesco Pia,

Peter Wernicke,

David Markenson

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of aquatic research and education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 1932-9997

pISSN - 1932-9253

DOI - 10.25035/ijare.03.04.10

Subject(s) - hyperventilation , psychology , intensive care medicine , medicine , anesthesia

Grimaldi (1993) noted that over breathing or hyperventilation is breathing at rate and depth higher than necessary to meet the metabolic needs of the body. Despite the incontrovertible neurophysiology findings that hyperventilation prior to underwater swimming can lead to a sudden loss of consciousness and death due to decreased carbon dioxide level, and has been identified as a contributing factor to drowning. This dangerous practice is still used in varying degrees by swimmers at aquatic facilities.

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