Respiratory Infections
The most frequent infections of childhood: 68/year
Pathogens:viruses,bacterial, other pathogens Host and environmental factors Classification of respiratory infections
Based on anatomy or X-ray manifestation
Bronchopneumonia Lobar or Lobular Pneumonia Interstitial Pneumonia
Pneumonia
Enmei Liu Children’s Hospital, CMU
Case -1
Jack, age four months, is sent at home by his general practitioner because of two days of rapid, laboured breathing and poor feeding. He was born at 27 weeks’ gestation, birth weight 979g and was discharged home at three months of age. On examination he was a fever of 37.4C and a respiratory rate of 60 breaths/min. His chest is hyperinflated with marked intercoatal recession. On auscultation there are generalized fine crackles and wheezes.