tachypnea
Sign in to saveAlso known as increased breath rate, increased respiratory rate, rapid respiration, tachypnoea
Tachypnea, also spelt tachypnoea, is a respiratory rate greater than normal, resulting in abnormally rapid and shallow breathing.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Tachypnea
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Tachypnoea
- Medical condition (new).field
- Pulmonology
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Research
5,936 papers- Recent Advances in Pathophysiology and Management of Transient Tachypnea of Newborn.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021
- Salbutamol for transient tachypnea of the newborn.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
- Sepsis and septic shock.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2016
- Tardive tachypnea.Intensive care medicine · 2016
- Salbutamol for transient tachypnea of the newborn.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Distinction from other breathing terms
- Threshold definition
- Causes
- Physiological causes
- Pathological causes
- Etymology and pronunciation
- See also
- References
- External links
Tachypnea, also spelt tachypnoea, is a respiratory rate greater than normal, resulting in abnormally rapid and shallow breathing.
In adult humans at rest, any respiratory rate of 1220 per minute is considered clinically normal, with tachypnea being any rate above that. Children have significantly higher resting ventilatory rates, which decline rapidly during the first three years of life and then steadily until around 18 years. Tachypnea can be an early indicator of pneumonia and other lung diseases in children, and is often an outcome of a brain injury.
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