Many factors, including age and activity levels, affect a person’s respiratory rate. Adults usually take between 12–20 breaths per minute, but children tend to breath faster. The respiratory rate is ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated the importance of hydrogen sulfide in the brain for normal respiration although the precise mechanism remained unclear. The medullary ...

You arrive for a difficulty-breathing emergency. The patient is alert and oriented and complaining of difficulty breathing. The patient appears to be mildly distressed and slightly anxious, but vitals ...

Hyperpnea is the term for taking deeper breaths than usual, which increases the volume of air in the lungs. This condition is often a response to an increase in metabolic demand when the body needs ...

N-ALLYLNORMORPHINE (Nalline), a substance that has been amply shown to counter-act the respiratory depression caused by morphine and related compounds, has received little attention as a respiratory ...

Twenty patients with chronic respiratory disease whose diagnoses had been established by numerous clinical and laboratory studies were selected for this study from an ambulatory clinic population.