Complications from incentive spirometry include:
a. barotrauma. c. pulmonary edema.
b. hypoventilation. d. subcutaneous em-physema.
ANS: A
Pulmonary barotrauma is a complication of incentive spirometry that usually occurs in patients with emphysematous lungs. Hypoventilation, pulmonary edema, and subcutaneous emphysema are not complications of incentive spirometry.
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