A patient assessment reveals distended neck veins, pulsus paradoxus, and decreasedsystolic pressure. This assessment is most consistent with: - Answer cardiac tamponade. The nurse is caring for a patient with severe sepsis and third-degree heart block. Thepatient is hypotensive. The treatment for this life-threatening rhythmchangeincludes: -Answer transcutaneous pacing. A patient is admitted to the ICU with suspected cervical spinal cord injury followingamotor vehicle accident. The most important nursing intervention for this patient isto: -Answer immobilize his head. The nurse assesses a patient's chest tube drainage 2 hours following thoracic surgery. The total drainage in the system is 200 mL. The nurse knows that: - Answer thisisanexcessive amount of drainage The patient being admitted requires CRRT therapy. The nurse assigned to admit thepatient has not been educated on this therapy. The charge nurse adjusts theassignment so that a nurse with 3 years experience in CRRT therapy is assignedtothepatient. This type of decision making is an example of: - Answer the synergy model for patient care. The patient diagnosed with acute tubular necrosis (ATN) and experiencing severedehydration, sepsis, and pneumonia is now in the polyureic stage of ATN. Themost important nursing action is to: - Answer monitor electrolyte levels and signs of fluiddepletion. A patient has an elevated central venous pressure (CVP) measurement. Themost likelyreason is: - Answer right heart failure. Diabetes insipidus is usually treated with - Answer vasopressin. Which physiologic effect is produced by alpha-1 receptors? - Answer VasoconstrictionThe patient experiencing an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) arrived on theunit anhour ago with TPA infusing. Initially, the patient's neurologic examwas norma