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