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Title: The nurse is assessing a child with croup. Which of the following signs or symptoms would the nurse ...
Post by: 1b on Feb 5, 2018
The nurse is assessing a child with croup. Which of the following signs or symptoms would the nurse associate with croup and most expect to find?
 
  a. bark-like cough, hoarseness, inspiratory stridor
  b. expiratory stridor, irregular breathing, and weak cough
  c. Cheyne-Stokes respirations and substernal retraction
  d. almost continual cough and complete laryngitis


Title: The nurse is assessing a child with croup. Which of the following signs or symptoms would the nurse ...
Post by: dededeed on Feb 5, 2018
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A Correct. Assessing a child with croup, the nurse will most expect to find as symptoms bark-like cough, hoarseness, inspiratory stridor.
B Incorrect. Assessing a child with croup, the nurse will not most expect to find as symptoms expiratory stridor (inspiratory), irregular breathing, and weak cough (barking cough is not weak).
C Incorrect. Assessing a child with croup, the nurse will not most expect to find as symptoms Cheyne-Stokes respirations and substernal retraction.
D Incorrect. Assessing a child with croup, the nurse will not most expect to find as symptoms an almost continual cough and complete laryngitis.