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Chapter 40 - A Floppy Breathless Child

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Sam Fosker  and
Shelley Riphagen
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 2-year-old girl with known spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was referred with a 3-day history of worsening tachypnoea and increasing lethargy. She was no longer tolerating feeds and had visible mild intercostal and subcostal recession. Initially the child had improved on high flow nasal cannula (HFNC); however, oxygen requirements gradually increased to FiO2 of 0.64 in 3 L/kg HFNC by the time of referral.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 221 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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