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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.