| Real-time CO2 monitoring helps patients control their anxiety attacks |
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| Sify: The biological-behavioral treatment program is called Capnometry-Assisted Respiratory Training, or CART, said Alicia E. Meuret, one of the researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. CART helps patients learn to breathe in such a way as to reverse hyperventilation, a highly uncomfortable state where the blood stream operates with abnormally low levels of carbon dioxide, said Meuret. |