When assessing a patient with left-sided tension pneumothorax, the nurse would expect to auscultate:
A) wheezing on expiration.
B) adventitious breath sounds over the left lung.
C) lack of breath sounds over the right lung.
D) a sucking sound across both lung fields.
B) adventitious breath sounds over the left lung.
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