A patient with epiglottitis would typically exhibit:

a. inspiratory stridor, pain on swallowing, high fever, and drooling.
b. expiratory wheezing, coughing, rales, and cyanosis.
c. inspiratory stridor, "seal-bark" cough, low-grade fever, and orthopnea.
d. expiratory wheezing, rales, coughing, high fever.

a