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concept of nursing 2
closed chest drainage system- lesson 1
Question | Answer |
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A patient is being prepared for open-heart surgery. Where would you expect the chest tube to be located when the patient returns from surgery? | In the mediastinum, just below the sternum. |
A student nurse is working as a tutor for a group of freshman physiology students. Which statement, if made by someone in the study group, would require correction? | "Physiologically, inspiration is a passive process that requires less work than expiration." |
Two nursing students are studying for an upcoming exam. One student quizzes the other regarding the cause of a patient's lung collapsing. What is the student's best response? | "When the intactness of the pleural space is broken, the space fills with air and/or fluid, causing positive thoracic pressure, which collapses lung tissue." |
A patient suddenly becomes short of breath, is complaining of chest pain, and has a drop in blood pressure. The nurse auscultates the lung sounds and hears normal lung sounds on the left and very diminished lung sounds on the right. | -- |
The patient’s trachea appears to be deviated to the left. What should the nurse suspect? | The patient has a tension pneumothorax. |