It is not uncommon to see babies in clinic who have been referred because they are persistently tachypnoeic. Sometimes this has been noticed by the parents, but more often, especially if it is the parents’ first baby, they do not realise anything is amiss, and it is the midwife, health visitor or general practitioner who brings it to their attention. Occasionally it has been noted as early as t...

A two-week-old male neonate was admitted to a district hospital with a short history of poor feeding, rapid grunting respirations and pyrexia. Bilateral extensive consolidation was noted and the patient was transferred to a general hospital for further management. On admission, the neonate was obtunded with tachypnoea, pyrexia and extensive crepitations in the chest. Chest radiographs (Fig. 1a)...

Most congenital heart disease (CHD) is readily recognisable in the newborn. Forewarned by previous fetal scanning, presence of a murmur, tachypnoea, cyanosis and/or differential pulses and saturations all point to cardiac abnormality. Yet serious may be missed on scan. There no murmur or clinical cyanosis, tachypneoa attributed non-cardiac causes. Tachypnoea day 1 usually except arising from ve...

Accepted 30 October 1996 A 22-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a 14-kg weight-loss over the last 14 months, and an abnormal chest X-ray. Physical examination revealed signs of consolidation over the left hemithorax, fever, tachypnoea and tachycardia. Computed tomography (CT) was performed (figure 1) and one liter of bloody fluid was drained by thoracentesis. Abdominal CT scan was normal.

A case of organophosphorous poisoning in a 29 year old male who developed intermediate syndrome manifested by features of respiratory depression as evidenced by marked weakness of the respiratory muscles, tachypnoea, and drop in oxygen saturation despite reversal of nicotinic and muscarinic effects of organophosphorous poisoning. The case highlights its early recognition and prompt institution ...

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...

THE term transient tachypnoea of the newborn (T.T.N.) was first used by Avery in 1966 to describe a condition characterised by a rapid respiratory rate during the first hours of life, with few or no accompanying signs of respiratory distress. Since then many authors have written about this syndrome under a variety of titles"Neonatal Tachypnoea" (Malan 1966), "Transient Respiratory Distress of t...