The Epidemiology of Acute Respiratory Distress Among Children, A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

Mofid Children Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Respiratory Distress

Treatments: Other: descriptive study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06578377

MofidCH

Details and patient eligibility

About

l Respiratory distress is still a major concern in pediatric medicine. l In this study we evaluated the symptoms and causes of respiratory distress among children in a tertiary hospital.

l We found that tachypnea is the most common symptom and asthma is the most common cause of respiratory distress in children.

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients older than one month
• signs or symptoms of respiratory distress, including tachypnea, bradypnea, cyanosis, respiratory muscle retraction, nasal flaring, tachycardia, and bradycardia

Exclusion criteria

• Patients older than 18 years old
• apnea
• known cardiac diseases