Why must infants increase their respiratory rate and not their tidal volume when work of breathing increases?
A) Infants are obligate nose-breathers.
B) The large abdomen-to-thorax ratio inhibits the tidal volume.
C) Infants have more intracellular water.
D) The thorax is unstable.
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