Your Patient Is Complaining of Respiratory Distress

question 62

Multiple Choice

Your patient is complaining of respiratory distress. In ruling out congestive heart failure, the absence of swollen ankles would be a:

• A) false positive finding.
• B) false negative finding.
• C) pertinent negative finding.
• D) true positive finding.

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