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Deast7027

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Question 1

During the assessment of a patient with a suspected cardiac tamponade, for what should the nurse monitor? Select all that apply.
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
◦ Muffled heart sounds
◦ Hypotension
◦ Flat jugular veins
◦ Pulsus paradoxus
◦ Bounding peripheral pulses

Question 2

A patient is being treated for cardiac tamponade. What should the nurse consider as a reason for the health problem to recur?
◦ Fluid or blood continues to accumulate in the pericardial sac.
◦ The cause of the tamponade was persistent hypertension.
◦ A pericardial window is surgically created.
◦ Treatment by needle aspiration of the fluid in the sac is performed.
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