NCLEX-PN
NCLEX Questions Respiratory Questions
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A patient is presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The patient has a chronic productive cough with dyspnea on excretion. Arterial blood gases show a low oxygen level and high carbon dioxide level in the blood. On assessment, the patient has cyanosis in the lips and edema in the abdomen and legs. Based on your nursing knowledge and the patient's symptoms, you suspect the patient suffers from what type of COPD?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Chronic bronchitis , a type of COPD, is characterized by chronic productive cough, hypoxemia, hypercapnia, cyanosis, and edema from right heart failure. Emphysema typically shows barrel chest, pneumonia is an infection, and pneumothorax involves lung collapse.
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