A 60-year-old woman has been brought to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance after she experienced a sudden onset of dyspnea and phoned 911 . The woman is obese but claims an unremarkable medical history and denies chest pain.
When assessing this patient, the nurse in the ED should be aware that:
A) Dyspnea is definitive for a respiratory, rather than cardiac, etiology.
B) The absence of known risk factors usually rules out myocardial infarction (MI) or angina as a cause of dyspnea.
C) Women often present with an MI much differently than do men.
D) Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) manifests with chest pain rather than with shortness of breath.
Question 2
The HIV patient asks the nurse about what to expect in terms of disease progression. The nurse tells this patient that although the disease can vary greatly among individuals, the usual pattern of progression includes
a. viremia, clinical latency, opportunistic diseases, and death.
b. asymptomatic phase, clinical latency, ARC, and AIDS.
c. acute retroviral syndrome, early infection, early symptomatic disease, and AIDS.
d. transitional viral syndrome, inactive disease, early symptomatic infection, and opportunistic diseases.
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