Labor pneumonia

General signs

  • Acute facial features, blushing
  • Nares flaring (dyspnea)
  • Cyanosis
  • Tachycardia
  • Simple herpes around lips

Inspection

  • Decreased respiratory movement
  • Palpation
  • Increased vocal resounce

Bronchial asthma

Symptom Expiratory dyspnea with wheezing

Signs

  • Expiratory dyspnea with wheezing
  • Orthopnea
  • Cyanosis
  • Severe sweat
  • Decreased movement of respiration
  • Decreased vocal fremitus
  • Hyperresonance
  • Rhonchi in full fields of lungs

Moderate to massive effusion

Signs 

  1. Tachypnea
  2. Limited movement of affected side
  3. Costal interspaces of affected side are wider
  4. Trachea shifts to opposite side
  5. Decreased vocal fremitus
  6. Stony Dullness
  7. Decreased or disappeared vesicular breath sound
  8. Pleural friction rub
  9. Abnormal bronchial breath sound in upper area of the fluid


  • Dry cough
  • Chest pain
  • Disappeared with growing of pleural effusion
  • Reappeared with the fluid decreasing
  • Affected side lying
  • Dyspnea, orthopnea
  • The symptoms of underlying disease