title: A classification system for asthmatic patients: clinical-physiological correlation.
abstract: A classification system for asthmatics based on simple, readily available clinical tools is defined and evaluated. Asthmatics so classified differed significantly in terms of their degree of dysfunction at the time of presentation. Comments regarding the relative importance and proper perspective of pulsus paradoxus and retraction of the sternocleidomastoid muscle in each classification of asthmatics is made.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011674:Pulse; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000175:diagnosis