What is the fastest respirations you've ever taken in an adult?

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The fastest I have ever taken in an elderly resident was 80 breaths per minute. What about you?

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In the 40's. And that was way too fast!

I'm curious--'what was up with your patient?

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Sadly, in the 40's but that's what it finally took before a family decided to transition a patient to comfort.

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High 40s.

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The fastest I have ever taken in an elderly resident was 80 breaths per minute. What about you?

46- mine.

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Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.

50's, on bipap. They got tubed, quickly.

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I'm in pediatrics, but I have seen a teenager at 40.

Last week I had a toddler hitting almost 100. Always makes for a fun shift.

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Specializes in Hospice.

68 - Kussmaul's resps in an acididotic pt. actively dying of ESRD.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

50s... but not for long, bc they were either tubed or paralyzed in short order

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

In the 60s -- patient was tubed as soon as we could get it done.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

40s--pt was in DKA.

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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.

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