While caring for a client with asthma, the nurse auscultates a bilateral high-pitched, continuous whistling sound in the anterior lung fields. what finding does the nurse document in the medical record?
The nurse should put that the client with asthma was wheezing. Wheezing is a common for people who have asthma and it is caused by the blocking of naval passages due to mucus and swelling. Wheezing makes it difficult for a person to breathe and causes a person to create a high pitched whistling sound when trying to breathe.