Secure the airway and address life-threatening emergencies.
Identify those who will need intensive/emergency care and those who can be worked up in the office.
Distinguish new-onset dyspnea fr...
Secure airway and stabilize the patient.
Treatment should be directed at the underlying cause of dyspnea.
Consider palliative/symptomatic treatment once underlying or reversible cause has been...
Kurland G, Deterding RR, Hagood JS, et al; for American Thoracic Society Committee on Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease, the Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease Research Network. ...
786.09 Other respiratory abnormalities
786.1 Stridor
786.07 Wheezing
R06.00 Dyspnea, unspecified
R06.1 Stridor
R06.2 Wheezing
R06.09 Other forms of dyspnea
267036007 Dyspnea (finding)
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Q: In most pediatric cases, is dyspnea pulmonary in nature?
A: In most cases, yes. Nonetheless, a systematic approach looking at all organ systems should be employed when addressing a patient with ...
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