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Atelectasis
SYMPTOMS may include difficulty in breathing, racing pulse, blood pressure
drop, fever and a bluish color.
CAUSES are from a shrunken, airless state of a lung. This may be from the
failure of a lung to expand at birth, sticky secretions causing obstruction
of airway or foreign materials, lymph nodes or tumors pressing on the airway
TREATMENT. For newborn, suction of windpipe, oxygen, stimulate breathing.
.Others, eliminate cause, stimulate coughing, suctioning and antibiotics.