Complex sentence: The patient has low lung volumes, atelectasis, loss of compliance, ventilation-perfusion mismatch (increased deadspace), and right to left shunt.Clinical features are--severe difficulty breathing, increased rate of breathing, and resistant hypoxemia.
Split into simpler sentences: The patient has low lung volumes, atelectasis, loss of compliance, ventilation-perfusion mismatch (increased deadspace), and right to left shunt. Its clinical features are severe difficulty breathing, increased rate of breathing, and resistant hypoxemia.