Back to Basics in Paediatric Pneumonia—Defining a Breath and Setting Reference Standards to Innovate Respiratory Rate Counting
Every November 12th, the global health community hosts World Pneumonia Day, and in 2020, on the 11th iteration, we find ourselves once more facing the fact that pneumonia is the leading global cause of infectious mortality amongst children under-5 years old. Many regions are not within sight of the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 target. And yet, this situation may be less surprising given we are—11 years later—still discussing the basic question of how we define (and count) a child’s single breath.
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