The nurse is assessing a patient recovering from a motor vehicle crash. Which assessment finding indicates that the patient is experiencing a pneumothorax?
A) hyperresonance to percussion at the apex of the left lung
B) dullness to percussion at the base of the left lung
C) crackles throughout the left lung
D) shallow breathing
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