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TVarnum

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on: Aug 20, 2018

During _____, the patient breathes into a tube attached to a machine which calculates the amount of air the lungs can hold.
a. metabolic cart analysis
b. spirometry
c. pulse oximetry
d. percussion

Question 2

Which of the following techniques would be used to detect rales?
a. percussion
b. auscultation
c. spirometry
d. pulse oximetry

owenfalvey

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Reply #1 on: Aug 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b

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