Breathing difficulties in the newborn.

[Breathing difficulties in children with cancer].

Respiratory distress is a common phenomenon in children with cancer. It is the most frequent cause of admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in this group of patients. Its etiology is varied, and early and appropriate treatment is required. This review describes the most prevalent forms of respiratory distress in children with cancer without bone marrow transplantation. The sympt...

Breathing difficulties in children with cancer

Respiratory distress is a common phenomenon in children with cancer. It is the most frequent cause of admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in this group of patients. Its etiology is varied, and early and appropriate treatment is required. This review describes the most prevalent forms of respiratory distress in children with cancer without bone marrow transplantation. The sympt...

[Breathing difficulties in children subjected to bone marrow transplantation].

Up to 60% of all children that receive to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) develop respiratory distress. It constitutes a common complication in this kind of patients, due to the increasing number of therapeutic applications of BMT and to improvement in the therapeutic approach to the problems associated with this procedure. We describe the different causes of respiratory distress after BMT in...

Breathing difficulties in children subjected to bone marrow transplantation

Breathing Measurements on Normal Newborn Infants.

Observations upon the frequency and amplitude of the respiratory movements of newborn children, recorded in the literature, are conflicting. The rate of breathing per minute is recorded as follows: Dohrn (1), 62; Eckstein and Rominger (2), 37 to 49; Pfaundler and Schlossmann (3), 40 to 45; and Feldman (4), 44. The depth of breathing, expressed in cubic centimeters, is given by Feldman (4) as 48...