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A nurse recognizes that the average resting respiratory rate for a 12-month-old child is approximately:
 
  a. 15 breaths per minute.
  b. 20 breaths per minute.
  c. 25 breaths per minute.
  d. 30 breaths per minute.

Question 2

The nurse is performing auscultation of breath sounds on a respiratory patient. The sounds heard on inspiration and expiration are low-pitched, coarse, gurgling, and have a snoring sound. These are identified as:
 
  a. crackles.
  b. plural friction rub.
  c. rhonchi.
  d. sonorous wheezes.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D
Average resting respiratory rate for the 12 month old is about 30 breaths per minute.

Answer to Question 2

D
Sonorous wheezes have a low-pitched, coarse, gurgling, snoring quality and usually indicate the presence of mucus in the trachea and large airways.


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