Symptom
Tachypnea
An abnormally increased respiratory rate reflecting increased ventilatory demand or compensation for impaired gas exchange or metabolic disturbance.
Adults: >20 breaths/minute
Children 3-5 years: >30 breaths/minute
Infants 0-1 year: >60 breaths/minute
Causes
Respiratory causes
Asthma
Pneumonia
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Pulmonary embolism
Atelectasis
Pneumothorax
Heart failure
Anemia
Metabolic acidosis (diabetic ketoacidosis)
Sepsis
Fever
Physiological causes
Stress or anxiety
Intense exercise
Drug and stimulant-related causes
Cocaine
Caffeine
Other sympathomimetic stimulants
Referencing diagnoses
- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Acute interstitial pneumonia
- Acute pancreatitis
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Anemia
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Asthma
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cholangitis
- COPD
- Crohn disease
- Croup
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diarrhea
- Dieulafoys lesion
- Epiglottitis
- Esophageal perforation
- Esophageal varices
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Femoral hernia
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
- Hemothorax
- Hypernatremia
- Inguinal hernia
- Inhalation injury
- Intestinal malrotation
- Intussusception
- Liver abscess
- Liver injury
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Meningitis
- Metabolic acidosis
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Perforated ulcer
- Pericarditis
- Pleural empyema
- Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary embolism
- Rectus sheath hematoma
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Ruptured ovarian cyst
- Shock
- Sickle cell disease
- Splenic injury
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.