While Assessing a Patient Who Was Involved in a Serious

question 8

Multiple Choice

While assessing a patient who was involved in a serious car crash and hit his steering wheel, the respiratory therapist observes that a section of his left anterior chest wall sinks inward during inspiration. What is the most likely cause?

• A) Pulmonary fibrosis
• B) Flail chest
• C) Pneumothorax
• D) Cardiac tamponade

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Definitions:

Freud

The founder of psychoanalysis, Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, devised a method to cure psychopathologies by facilitating conversations between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Ethical Standards

Principles that govern the behavior of individuals and organizations, often serving as guidelines for moral and correct actions and decisions.

Superego

A component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory representing the internalized societal and parental standards of right and wrong.

Morality Principle

In psychoanalytic theory, a component of the superego that consists of the internalized standards of right and wrong guiding behavior.