A Patient Was Stabbed in the Right Anterior Chest and Is

question 27

Multiple Choice

A patient was stabbed in the right anterior chest and is in obvious respiratory distress. As you perform the secondary assessment, which of the following signs and/or symptoms would concern you that she is suffering from a tension pneumothorax?

• A) Absent breath sounds on the right, distended neck veins, tracheal deviation to the left
• B) Absent breath sounds on the left, hypotension, SpO₂ at 98%, bradycardia
• C) Respiratory distress, absent breath sounds on the left, flat neck veins, tachycardia
• D) Absent breath sounds on the right, tracheal deviation to the right, cyanosis

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