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A 2-Year-Old Child Was Brought into the Emergency Department After

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A 2-year-old child was brought into the emergency department after ingesting several morphine tablets from a bottle in his mother's purse.The nurse knows that the child is at greatest risk for which acid-base imbalance?


A) Respiratory acidosis
B) Respiratory alkalosis
C) Metabolic acidosis
D) Metabolic alkalosis

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