Your trauma patient has no auscultated breath sounds in the right lung field. You can hear adequate sounds on the left side. A likely cause of this abnormality could be that the patient:
a. has a closed head injury.
b. has fluid in the pleural space.
c. is moaning and in severe pain.
d. is receiving high-flow oxygen.
B
Trauma to the chest can cause an exudative pleural effusion or pneumothorax. In the affected areas, the breath sounds are diminished to absent.
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