Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn, Pediatric

<bold>FIGURE 4.6 Lateral views of the adult lungs.</bold> Knowledge of the fissures between lungs facilitates a respiratory examination. Pneumonias and other fluid accumulations can be restricted to individual lung lobes and, thus, can be detected by appreciating a line of dullness, or rubbing when the chest wall is tapped or the lungs are auscultated.

<bold>FIGURE 4.11 Major families of respiratory stress.</bold> Most people who have difficulty breathing suffer from bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, or some combination of these. As shown schematically, a patient can experience one, two, or all three of these conditions at once. The box perimeter indicates patients with some form of airway obstruction (11). Patients with two or more of these conditions are more common than patients with only one.