Question

While caring for a client with asthma, the nurse auscultates a bilateral high-pitched, continuous whistling sound in the anterior lung fields. what finding does the nurse document in the medical record?

Answer 1

The nurse should put that the client with asthma was wheezing. Wheezing is a common for people who have asthma and it is caused by the blocking of naval passages due to mucus and swelling. Wheezing makes it difficult for a person to breathe and causes a person to create a high pitched whistling sound when trying to breathe.