A client with left-sided heart failure complains of increasing shortness of breath and is agitated and coughing up pink-tinged, foamy sputum. The nurse should recognize these findings as signs and symptoms of:
a) acute pulmonary edema.
b) right-sided heart failure.
c) cardiogenic shock.
d) pneumonia.
Answer: acute pulmonary edema.
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