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madam-professor

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on: Jun 28, 2018
What is the best intervention for the nurse caring for a child experiencing an acute asthma attack?
 
  a. Offer plenty of fluids, particularly carbonated beverages.
  b. Place the child in a humidified cool mist tent with oxygen.
  c. Administer sedatives as ordered to decrease anxiety.
  d. Position the child with arms resting on the overbed table.

Question 2

What classic sign would the nurse, auscultating the breath sounds of a child hospitalized for an acute asthma attack, expect to find?
 
  a. Fine crackles
  b. Coarse rhonchi
  c. Expiratory wheezing
  d. Decreased breath sounds at lung bases


gasdhashg

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Reply #1 on: Jun 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
This position is comfortable and allows maximum use of the accessory muscles for breathing. Sedatives would mask symptoms of increasing air hunger. Carbonated beverages are contraindicated in persons with dyspnea.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
The child experiencing an acute asthma attack wheezes as air moves in and out of the narrowed airways. The expiratory wheeze is most pronounced.


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