// AEMT Question · Advanced Airway

A patient with an ET tube has absent breath sounds on the right side. This suggests:

A. Right mainstem intubation
B. Left mainstem intubationCorrect
C. Pneumothorax on the right
D. Normal placement

// Rationale

Absent breath sounds on the right with present sounds on the left suggests the ET tube has entered the left mainstem bronchus.

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