Use Respiratory Rate Check when you need to check whether a respiratory rate in breaths per minute falls within the normal adult range of 12 to 20 inclusive. Enter Breaths per minute using the definitions and units below so the result can be reproduced.

Breaths per minute

A finite measured or assumed value from 6 through 60, expressed in breaths/min.

The published tool contract uses this rule: Check whether a respiratory rate in breaths per minute falls within the normal adult range of 12 to 20 inclusive.^[1]

Within normal range

True when the rate is within 12 to 20 inclusive.

Breaths per minute

The calculated breaths per minute in breaths/min.

The category is produced by fixed software thresholds. Those cutoffs may differ from a laboratory, field protocol, population, jurisdiction, or current professional guideline. It is informational and cannot diagnose a condition, select treatment, or replace professional interpretation of the original measurements. Breaths per minute must remain between 6 and 60.

Retain the original Breaths per minute values and their units alongside the result. Kleiber BMR is useful when you instead need to estimate basal metabolic rate across animals with Kleiber's law: BMR = 70 x bodyMass^0.75 kilocalories per day. Specific Growth Rate provides another view by helping you calculate the specific growth rate in inverse hours from two counts.

• Kleiber BMR

  Estimate basal metabolic rate across animals with Kleiber's law: BMR = 70 x bodyMass^0.75 kilocalories per day.

• Specific Growth Rate

  Calculate the specific growth rate in inverse hours from two counts.

• Crop Growth Rate

  Compute crop growth rate in grams per square metre of ground per day as standing dry mass gain divided by ground area times elapsed days.