Treatment guideline

Shortness of breath or breathlessness may result from a range of pulmonary, cardiac and central nervous system causes. It is important to look for the underlying cause for immediate intervention.

Fever is abnormal elevation of body temperature that occurs as part of a specific biologic response that is mediated and controlled by central nervous system and is usually a symptom of an infection.

Pain is an unpleasant sensation or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

Status epilepticus is a single seizure ≥5 minutes in length or two or more seizures without recovery of consciousness between seizures.

Shock is a state of acute circulatory failure leading to decreased organ perfusion, with inadequate delivery of oxygenated blood to tissues and resultant end-organ dysfunction and it is an emergency condition.

Stridor is an abnormal, high-pitched sound produced by turbulent airflow through a partially obstructed airway.