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What is the definition or description of: rapid breathing?
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Called tachypnea: doctors consider someone to have rapid breathing if their breathing is over 20 times a minutes. However, that has to be taken in context with everything else that is going on. Certainly, breathing over 30x per minute is cause for concern.
Answered 5/7/2017
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