You are an adult respiratory therapist working in the emerge…
You are an adult respiratory therapist working in the emergency department. You have been told to come to shock room #1 to assess a patient in respiratory distress. The patient is showing signs and symptoms of shortness of breath, has difficulty speaking, and is coughing up frothy/pink secretions. Based on this description, what do you assume the patient has?
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You are a pediatric respiratory therapist working the floors and performing chest physical therapy on a patient. After the exercise, you ask the patient to cough any sputum that they can to clear their airways. After a few seconds, the patient is able to expectorate green, foul smelling sputum. The patient’s sputum indicates that the patient has what issue?
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