Question

EMR Jiao counts her patient's respirations as she performs her primary assessment. Jiao

counts 30 respirations per minute. Which medical term describes Jiao's findings?

Answer 1

Tachypnea

Step-by-step explanation:

Under the assumption, your patient is an adult the normal range for respirations is 12 to 20 per minute. Anything above that number we would call tachypnea and anything below we call bradypnea. Remember our medical prefixes, tachy means fast, and brady means slow.

HOWEVER, if your patient is a child (1-12) or an infant (0-1), these respirations would be normal.

Child range: 15-30

Infant range: 25-50