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A client comes to the trauma unit in respiratory distress following a motor vehicle accident. on examination, the nurse notices that the trachea is deviated from the midline. wh…

A client comes to the trauma unit in respiratory distress following a motor vehicle accident. on examination, the nurse notices that the trachea is deviated from the midline. wh…
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a client comes to the trauma unit in respiratory distress following a motor vehicle accident. on examination, the nurse notices that the trachea is deviated from the midline. what does this finding indicate?

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he has most likely suffered a pneumothorax

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