A Patient Recovering from Abdominal Surgery Is Having Difficulty Developing

A patient recovering from abdominal surgery is having difficulty developing an effective cough. Which of the following actions would you recommend to aid this patient in generating a more effective cough?
1) Coordinating coughing with pain medication
2) Using the forced expiration technique (FET)
3) Supplying manual epigastric compression
4) "Splinting" the operative site

A) 1, 2, and 4 only
B) 1, 2, and 3 only
C) 3 and 4 only
D) 2, 3, and 4 only

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