Which condition requires immediate emergency intervention?
a. Patient with pleuritic pain without dysp-nea
b. Patient with fever and a productive cough
c. Patient with tachypnea but no chest re-tractions
d. Patient with absent breath sounds and dull percussion tones
D
Absent breath sounds can indicate that the client is moving no, air such as in a severe asthma at-tack, and would require immediate intervention. Impending respiratory arrest is indicated by ab-sence of breath sounds and often respiratory arrest is exacerbated by the presence of infectious processes that would cause dull percussion tones.
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