<unk> , also spelt<unk> , 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<unk>  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.<unk>  can be an early indicator of pneumonia and other lung diseases in children, and is often an outcome of a brain injury.
Tachypnea
Platypnea
Apnea
Hyperpnea
Bradypnea
Periodic breathing
Orthopnea
Shallow breathing