Your patient with a flail chest is experiencing pendelluft. What are its effects?
1) Hypoventilation
2) Hypertension
3) Cyclical deeper and then more shallow breathing
4) Rebreathing dead-space gas
A) 1, 4
B) 1, 3
C) 2, 3, 4
D) 1, 2, 3, 4
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