This article aims to assist practitioners to perform a respiratory assessment.
A logical and structured approach to respiratory assessment, such as the ‘look, listen and feel’ approach, should be undertaken.
The respiratory rate is an early indicator of deterioration of a patient’s condition.
Signs of clinical deterioration should be responded to in a timely manner.
A track and trigger scoring tool can be used to evaluate physiological data, develop a management plan and indicate future investigations.
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Nursing Standard. 30, 7, 34-36. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.7.34.s45
Correspondence Peer reviewAll submissions are subject to external double-blind peer-review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Received: 13 October 2014
Accepted: 04 December 2014
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