While taking respiratory history on a patient in an outpatie…
While taking respiratory history on a patient in an outpatient pulmonary clinic, you are told by the patient that she has difficulty breathing while lying flat in bed. Which of the following terms should you use to describe this patient’s symptom?
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A dull or soft percussion note would likely be heard in which of the following pathologic conditions? 1. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (air) 2. pneumothorax (air) 3. pleural effusion (fluid outside lung) 4. consolidation (fluid inside the lung)
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