| Cough |
| 0 |
None |
| 1 |
Rare |
| 2 |
Daily repeated |
| 3 |
Spontaneous during clinical examination |
| Dyspnoea |
| 0 |
No difficulty in respiration |
| 1 |
Mild visible increase of the abdominal movement at the end of expiratory phase. |
| 2 |
A clear abdominal movement during expiration. |
| 3 |
A difficult abdominal breathing with wide nostrils. |
| 4 |
High degree of respiratory distress |
| Lung auscultation |
| 0 |
Physiological (vesicular inspiration) |
| 1 |
Mild degree of sharpness of inspiratory sounds. |
| 2 |
Exaggerated inspiratory sounds and quite expiratory sounds. |
| 3 |
Roughness in both expiratory and tracheal rattle sounds. |
| 4 |
“Wheezes, Crackles” and or rattle sounds over the lung area. |
| Rectal temperature |
| 0 |
<36.5 |
| 1 |
36.7–39 |
| 2 |
39.1–40 |
| 3 |
>40.1 |
