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Encourage the client to take deep breaths.
🫁An oxygen saturation of 88% indicates hypoxemia, so immediate noninvasive ventilation-supporting actions are appropriate.
🧍♂️Encouraging deep breathing improves alveolar expansion and gas exchange, which can raise oxygen saturation.
🛏️Decreasing the head of the bed impairs lung expansion, potentially worsening oxygenation.
💊Requesting an opioid risks respiratory depression, and coughing every 4 hr is too infrequent to address acute desaturation.
📌Core Message
In acute hypoxemia, prioritize simple airway/ventilation maneuvers like deep breathing and avoid actions that reduce lung expansion or depress respiration.
This question is from ATI Pharmacology Summer 2023 Exam-5 which contains 49 questions.
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