Your 6-year-old patient's respiratory rate is 36 breaths per minute, which you record as
a. within normal limits for his age. c. hyperpnea.
b. tachypnea. d. hyperventilation.
B
Tachypnea is a respiratory rate greater than 22 breaths per minute for a child 6 years of age; therefore, 36 breaths per minute is tachypnea. For a 6-year-old child, 16 to 22 breaths per minute is considered within normal limits. Hyperpnea is an exaggerated, deep, rapid, or labored respiration. Hyperventilation is a pulmonary ventilation rate that is greater than that metabolically necessary for pulmonary gas exchange.
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