Clinical features
Clinical features include:
- patient has difficulty speaking in phrases or sentences
- tachycardia
- wheezing
- increased respiratory rate
- increased incidence of pneumothorax - absent breath sounds
- patient sitting up
- use of accessory muscles of respiration
- drowsiness due to hypercapnia - preterminal
- patient exhausted and fearful
Reference
1. British Thoracic Society; Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. British guideline on the management of asthma: a national clinical guideline. Jul 2019 [internet publication].
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