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Clinical Evaluation of Airway Obstruction

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Any upper or lower airway obstruction generates a pathological respiratory sound resulting from the rapid, turbulent flow of air through the narrowed segment of the respiratory tract. Depending on the severity, duration and progression of the obstruction, other symptoms and signs of respiratory distress may occur such as dyspnoea, nasal flaring, supraclavicular, sternal, intercostal and subcostal retractions, grunting, life-threatening cyanotic episodes, somnolence and apnoea.

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Monnier, P. (2011). Clinical Evaluation of Airway Obstruction. In: Monnier, P. (eds) Pediatric Airway Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13535-4_3

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