Short-term hormone therapy protects against all of the following conditions except:

Tracheal deviation toward an injured lung suggests which of the following injuries or conditions?

a. A simple pneumothorax b. A tension pneumothorax c. Acute respiratory compromise d. Increased respiratory drive

A 47-year-old male client with unresolved hemothorax is febrile, with chills and sweating. He has a nonproductive cough and chest pain. His chest tube drainage is turbid. A possible explanation for these findings is:

a) lobar pneumonia. b) empyema. c) Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. d) infected chest tube wound site.