The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient Who Is Comatose

question 16

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a patient who is comatose and on a ventilator.When she enters the room,she notices that the patient's trachea has shifted toward the left side of the patient's neck,and he has become tachycardic.She assesses the patient's blood pressure and notes that it is 84/38.The nurse calls for help,having recognized that the patient has developed which of the following conditions?

• A)Hemothorax
• B)Pneumothorax on the left side
• C)Pneumothorax on the right side
• D)Myocardial infarction

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Definitions:

Sample Information

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T-Distribution

A type of probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, but with heavier tails than a normal distribution, used especially in statistics for small sample sizes.

Normally Distributed

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Population

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