Clinical features of NRDS include worsening respiratory effort with tachypnea, accessory muscle use, and grunting, along with hypoxemia, cyanosis, and a diffuse "ground-glass" lung appearance on X-ray.
Clinical signs of NRDS include increasing respiratory effort with accessory muscle use and grunting, hypoxemia with cyanosis, and a "ground-glass" appearance on chest X-ray.
| Front | Clinical features of NRDS. |
|---|---|
| Back | 1. Increasing respiratory effort after birth, tachypnea with use of accessory muscles, and grunting 2. Hypoxemia with cyanosis 3. Diffuse granularity of the lung on x-ray ("ground-glass" appearance) |
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