Cardiovascular and respiratory symptoms and features (14 contents)
Respiratory disorders (16 contents)
Sleep apnoea - what is it?
Sleep apnoea is a condition in which a person's upper airway becomes partially or completely blocked. During sleep, breathing repeatedly stops and starts. There are several potential causes, and...
Respiratory rate: what should it be in a child?
Just as, when discussing basic vital signs, attention is drawn to blood pressure or heart function, breathing rate is often much less mentioned. Meanwhile, both decreased and increased respiratory...
Hiccups in a baby: how to stop them?
Hiccups - who among us hasn't experienced them? In principle, it is not associated with any health risk, but sometimes - especially when it persists for a long time - we wonder how to stop it....
Cystic fibrosis - a dangerous genetic disease
Cystic fibrosis is a progressive genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections, restricts the ability to breathe and causes dysfunction in other internal organs. The disease is one of the...
