Chronic Bronchitis: Clinical Features
- Thick sputum.
- Irritable cough.
- Dyspnoea (breathlessness).
- Audible crepitation's (crackling sound heard through a stethoscope).
- Forced Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV1) is reduced (FEV1 shows the amount of air a person can forcefully exhale in one second of their forced vital capacity (FVC).
- Barrel shaped chest.
