Chest

Increased heart rate

Increased heartbeat or tachycardia is a pathological process that indicates an uneasy physiological state. Let's consider when increased heartbeat occurs, find its causes and treatment methods.

Severe heartburn

Severe heartburn never appears without reason. Increased acidity occurs due to gastrointestinal diseases or when eating poor-quality and irritating food.

Treatment of dyspnea is carried out depending on the cause of the syndrome. Oxygen is indicated not only for bronchial obstruction, but also for other diseases accompanied by hypoxemia. There is evidence that long-term oxygen therapy can reduce the mortality of patients with COPD.

Coughing up blood

Coughing up blood is an alarming symptom indicating various diseases – from fairly simple ones to serious ones, sometimes threatening not only a person’s health, but also their life.

Heartbeat

Palpitations are the patient's perception of their heart working. Patients describe them as fluttering, jumping out, or pounding. Sinus rhythm with a normal heart rate is usually not typical for such cases.

Chest pain

The heart, lungs, esophagus, and great vessels receive afferent innervation from the same thoracic ganglion. Pain impulses from these organs are most often perceived as chest pain.

Lung wheezing

Wheezing (rhonchi) - respiratory noises caused by narrowing of the respiratory tract or the presence of pathological contents in them. Wheezing occurs mainly in the bronchi, less often - in cavities with bronchial communication (cavern, abscess).

Symptoms of shortness of breath

A feeling of general discomfort due to insufficient oxygen saturation of blood and tissues is typical. Patients describe their sensations associated with shortness of breath in different ways - "not enough air", "feeling of constriction in the chest, behind the sternum, in the throat", "tiredness in the chest", "cannot fully inhale", "I gasp for air with an open mouth, "breathe like a fish", etc.

Dyspnea

Dyspnea (dyspnoe) is a disturbance of the frequency, rhythm and depth of breathing, accompanied by increased work of the respiratory muscles and, as a rule, subjective sensations of lack of air or difficulty breathing, often cyanosis (in pulmonary diseases, usually "warm" due to secondary compensatory erythrocytosis and dilation of small vessels due to hypercapnia).

Hemoptysis

The detection of blood in sputum - hemoptysis - is of great clinical importance. Depending on the blood content, sputum may become pink, red or brown.