Specialty Hub
Neonatal & Pediatric
Children are not small adults. From the delivery-room resuscitation to the wheezing infant and the child with stridor, neonatal and pediatric respiratory care runs on its own physiology, its own numbers, and its own equipment. This hub gathers the assessment, the disorders, and the bedside references that keep it straight.
Guides
From newborn resuscitation to the wheezing infant and the child with stridor.
Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
Surfactant-deficient lung disease of the premature newborn - why RDS happens, how it looks on exam and X-ray, and the modern management ladder of antenatal steroids, early CPAP, and surfactant (INSURE and LISA).
Neonatal Resuscitation Essentials
The delivery-room sequence every RT should own - the Golden Minute, the initial steps, effective positive-pressure ventilation and MR SOPA, when to escalate to compressions and epinephrine, and how oxygen is targeted in the newborn.
Pediatric Respiratory Assessment
How children differ from adults - the anatomic and physiologic features that make them desaturate faster - plus the signs of respiratory distress, normal vitals by age, and the progression from distress to failure to arrest.
Bronchiolitis (RSV) Management
The most common lower-respiratory infection in infants - how RSV bronchiolitis presents, the evidence-based supportive approach (and what not to do), the role of high-flow nasal cannula and CPAP, and the apnea and red-flag signs that demand escalation.
Croup & Pediatric Upper Airway Obstruction
Stridor in a child - the spectrum of upper-airway obstruction from viral croup to epiglottitis and bacterial tracheitis, how to grade severity, and the management that turns it around: keep the child calm, racemic epinephrine, and corticosteroids.
Interactive Practice
Practice Tools
The acid-base and gas-exchange tools that work at every age — interpret the gas, quantify ventilation, and grade the oxygenation defect.
Clinical References
Age-banded vital signs and airway equipment sizes, ready to scan.
Pediatric Vital Signs & Normal Values
Age-banded normal values for the pediatric patient - respiratory rate, heart rate, and systolic blood pressure from newborn through adolescent, plus SpO₂ targets, weight estimation, and the hypotension thresholds that signal decompensation.
Pediatric Airway Equipment Sizing
A bedside sizing reference for the pediatric airway - endotracheal tube internal diameter (cuffed and uncuffed) and insertion depth, laryngoscope blade, suction catheter, and oral/nasal airway and LMA sizes - by age and weight.
Quick Charts
The neonatal disorders and the croup-versus-epiglottitis call, side by side.
Croup vs Epiglottitis
Croup and epiglottitis side by side - onset, age, fever, the presence of cough and drooling, posture, the classic X-ray sign, and management - so the airway emergency is never mistaken for the common viral illness.
Neonatal Respiratory Disorders Comparison
The major neonatal respiratory disorders compared - RDS, transient tachypnea of the newborn, meconium aspiration, persistent pulmonary hypertension, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia - by population, timing, mechanism, chest X-ray, and management.
Suggested Learning Path
From how children differ to the delivery room and the common admissions.
Related Specialties
Neonatal and pediatric care connects directly to these areas.