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Can you tell me how to know if i got pulmonary aspiration?
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Get xrays at least: Aspiration in lungs will present like pneumonia with cough fever Shortness of breath and an infilterate on chest xray,If you have aspirated any particulate material,you can present with collapse/pneumonia on xray
Answered 5/19/2015
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