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Your patient has bronchitis and has difficulty in clearing his chest. What position would help to maximize the drainage of secretions?

  • Lying flat on his back while using a nebulizer.

  • Sitting up leaning on pillows and inhaling humidified oxygen

  • Lying on his side with the area to be drained uppermost after the patient has had humidified air.

  • Standing up in fresh air taking deep breath