A client is admitted to the intensive care unit with severe dyspnea, fear, noisy respirations, sweating, and tachypnea. The nurse would recognize that the client is exhibiting manifestations of
a. acute pulmonary edema.
b. acute myocardial infarction.
c. chronic congestive heart failure.
d. right ventricular failure.
A
Acute pulmonary edema, a medical emergency, usually results from left ventricular failure. Typ-ical manifestations include severe dyspnea, orthopnea, pallor, tachycardia, expectoration of large amounts of frothy blood and sputum, fear, wheezing, sweating, bubbling respirations, cyanosis, nasal flaring, use of accessory breathing muscles, tachypnea, vasoconstriction, and hypoxia.
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