Wallis L A, Healy M, Undy M B, Maconochie I
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Arch Dis Child. 2005 Nov;90(11):1117-21. doi: 10.1136/adc.2004.068718. Epub 2005 Jul 27.
Clinical vital signs in children (temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure) are an integral part of clinical assessment of degree of illness or normality. Despite this, only blood pressure and temperature have a reliable evidence base. The accepted ranges of heart and respiration rate vary widely.
This study examined 1109 children aged 4-16 years in their own schools. Age, sex, height, weight, and resting respiration rate and heart rate were recorded. The data were used to produce age related reference ranges for everyday clinical use.
Reference intervals are presented for the range of heart rate and respiration rate of healthy resting children aged 4-16 years. The recorded values are at variance with standard quoted ranges in currently available texts.
儿童的临床生命体征(体温、心率、呼吸频率和血压)是疾病程度或正常状态临床评估的重要组成部分。尽管如此,只有血压和体温有可靠的证据基础。心率和呼吸频率的公认范围差异很大。
本研究在儿童各自的学校对1109名4至16岁的儿童进行了检查。记录了年龄、性别、身高、体重以及静息呼吸频率和心率。这些数据用于生成日常临床使用的与年龄相关的参考范围。
给出了4至16岁健康静息儿童心率和呼吸频率范围的参考区间。记录值与现有文献中引用的标准范围不一致。