A client comes to the doctor’s office describing shortness of breath and strange breath sounds when inhaling deeply. Upon auscultation of the lung fields, sibilant wheezes are noted. The nurse is most...

A client comes to the doctor’s office describing shortness of breath and strange breath sounds when inhaling deeply. Upon auscultation of the lung fields, sibilant wheezes are noted. The nurse is most correct in stating that wheezes result from which of the following?

1. Air passing through narrowed passages

2. Air escaping through a pneumothorax

3. Air collecting in the pleural cavity

4. Air between visceral and parietal pleurae