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I know you said no peds, but I did once have a newborn with a cardiac defect who was breathing in the low 100s, occasionally 110s. Cardiac kids can be 'comfortably tachypneic,' i.e. tachypneic without any other signs of increased work of breathing. She was just chugging along, happy as a clam, with a tiny whiff of oxygen via a cannula, although she was a little irked since we wouldn't let her PO feed with those kind of respers.
Daveforsale
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The fastest I have ever taken in an elderly resident was 80 breaths per minute. What about you?