In reviewing the chart of a 65 year-old patient diagnosed with COPD and chronic hypoxemia, you would expect to see which of the following findings?
A. decreased A-P chest diameter
B. chronic respiratory alkalosis
C. secondary polycythemia
D. FRC less than predicted
Ans: C. secondary polycythemia
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