Emergency room with complains of difficulty breathing

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A 55-year-old male client presents to the emergency room with complains of difficulty breathing. He felt mildly short of breath waking this morning but became extremely dyspneic after working. He is visibly anxious and cannot complete his sentences. He is diaphoretic, with pale skin and a wet persistent cough. His wife is present in the room and revealed her husband's history of smoking two packs of cigarettes per day for the last twenty years and continues to smoke. He is a carpenter by trade and mostly works indoors. He also has a history of HTN. He has an allergy to PCN. His SpO2 is 84% on room air. what home therapy would the nurse anticipate the client to be discharged home with?.

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