What breath sounds would the nurse expect to hear in a client with left-sided heart failure?
a. stridor c. rubs
b. moist crackles d. wheezing
B
In left-sided heart failure, the lungs become congested with fluid as fluid leaks through the capillaries and fills air spaces in the lungs. The client becomes cyanotic, dyspneic, restless, and coughs up blood-tinged sputum. Breath sounds have moist crackles.
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Grounded theory is to descriptive theory as a schematic model is to a statistical model
A) True B) False
Find the greatest common factor of the numerator and denominator in
What will be an ideal response?