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    The document provides signs and symptoms for various medical conditions: - Hypernatremia causes fever, flushed skin, increased fluid retention, edema, decreased urinary output and dry mouth. - Respiratory depression from inducing drugs can cause someone to stop breathing. - Pneumothorax presents with pleuritic pain, trachea deviation, hyperresonance, reduced breath sounds and absent fremitus on examination with collapse seen on chest x-ray. - Risk factors for pneumonia include immunosuppression, neoplasia, secretion retention, pulmonary edema, impaired alveolar macrophages and prior respiratory tract infections. - Croup presents with stridor, subglottic swelling and

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    The document provides signs and symptoms for various medical conditions: - Hypernatremia causes fever, flushed skin, increased fluid retention, edema, decreased urinary output and dry mouth. - Respiratory depression from inducing drugs can cause someone to stop breathing. - Pneumothorax presents with pleuritic pain, trachea deviation, hyperresonance, reduced breath sounds and absent fremitus on examination with collapse seen on chest x-ray. - Risk factors for pneumonia include immunosuppression, neoplasia, secretion retention, pulmonary edema, impaired alveolar macrophages and prior respiratory tract infections. - Croup presents with stridor, subglottic swelling and

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    The document provides signs and symptoms for various medical conditions: - Hypernatremia causes fever, flushed skin, increased fluid retention, edema, decreased urinary output and dry mouth. - Respiratory depression from inducing drugs can cause someone to stop breathing. - Pneumothorax presents with pleuritic pain, trachea deviation, hyperresonance, reduced breath sounds and absent fremitus on examination with collapse seen on chest x-ray. - Risk factors for pneumonia include immunosuppression, neoplasia, secretion retention, pulmonary edema, impaired alveolar macrophages and prior respiratory tract infections. - Croup presents with stridor, subglottic swelling and

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    The document provides signs and symptoms for various medical conditions: - Hypernatremia causes fever, flushed skin, increased fluid retention, edema, decreased urinary output and dry mouth. - Respiratory depression from inducing drugs can cause someone to stop breathing. - Pneumothorax presents with pleuritic pain, trachea deviation, hyperresonance, reduced breath sounds and absent fremitus on examination with collapse seen on chest x-ray. - Risk factors for pneumonia include immunosuppression, neoplasia, secretion retention, pulmonary edema, impaired alveolar macrophages and prior respiratory tract infections. - Croup presents with stridor, subglottic swelling and

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    HYPERNATREMIA FRIED SALT F - Fever (low), flushed skin R - Restless (irritable) I - Increased fluid retention & increased BP E - Edema

    (peripheral and pitting) D - Decreased urinary output, dry mouth

    BEEP B - Bleeding gums E - Ecchymoses (bruises) E - Epistaxis (nosebleed) P - Petechiae (tiny purplish spots)

    RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION - inducing drugs STOP breathing

    SALT S - Skin flushed A - Agitation L - Low-grade fever T - Thirst

    S - Sedatives and hypnotics T - Trimethoprim O - Opiates P - Polymyxins

    PNEUMOTHORAX - S/Sx HYPERKALEMIA - Signs & Symptoms MURDER M - Muscle weakness U - Urine, oliguria, anuria R - Respiratory distress D - Decreased cardiac contractility E - ECG changes R - Reflexes, hyperreflexia, or areflexia (flaccid) P-THORAX P - Pleuretic pain T - Trachea deviation H - Hyperresonance O - Onset sudden R - Reduced breath sounds (& dypsnea) A - Absent fremitus X - X-ray shows collapse

    HYPERKALEMIA - Causes MACHINE M - Medications - ACE inhibitors, NSAIDS A - Acidosis - Metabolic and respiratory C - Cellular destruction - Burns, traumatic injury H - Hypoaldosteronism/ hemolysis I - Intake - Excessive N - Nephrons, renal failure E - Excretion - Impaired

    PNEUMONIA - risk factors INSPIRATION I - Immunosuppression N - Neoplasia S - Secretion retention P - Pulmonary oedema I - Impaired alveolar macrophages R - RTI (prior) A - Antibiotics & cytotoxics T - Tracheal instrumentation

    HYPOCALCEMIA CATS C - Convulsions A - Arrhythmias T - Tetany S - Spasms and stridor

    I - IV dug abuse O - Other (general debility, immobility) N - Neurologic impairment of cough reflex, (eg NMJ disorders)

    CROUP - S/Sx SSS S - Stridor

    BLEEDING - S/Sx

    S - Subglottic swelling

    S - Seal-bark cough

    A - Anxiety A - Asthma

    SHORTNESS OF BREATH - Causes AAAA PPPP A - Airway obstruction A - Angina

    P - Pneumonia P - Pneumothorax P - Pulmonary Edema P - Pulmonary Embolus

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