While eating a meal in the hospital, a patient demonstrates difficulty breathing and signs of choking. The nurse realizes that the patient is experiencing which condition?
1. Laryngeal obstruction
2. Pulmonary emboli
3. Epiglottitis
4. An acute myocardial infarction
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Rationale 1: The most common manifestations of laryngeal obstruction are coughing, choking, gagging, obvious difficulty breathing with use of accessory muscles, and inspiratory stridor.
Rationale 2: Pulmonary emboli would not likely be the cause of choking for this patient.
Rationale 3: Epiglottitis is an infection and is not described in this case.
Rationale 4: Acute myocardial infarction would not be the obvious diagnosis in this case.
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