The nurse is assisting with monitoring the functioning of a chesttube drainage system in a client who just returned from the recovery room after a thoracotomy with wedge resection. Which findings should the nurse expect to note? Select all that apply.
1. Excessive bubbling in the water-seal chamber 2. Vigorous bubbling in the suction-control chamber 3. 50 mL of drainage in the drainage-collection chamber 4. The drainage system is maintained below the client’s chest. 5. An occlusive dressing is in place over the chest-tube insertion site. 6. Fluctuation of water in the tube of the water-seal chamber during inhalation and exhalation
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