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The nurse is caring for a patient with gastroenteritis who has been vomiting for 48 hours. A family member of the patient asks the nurse,
 
  Why is he breathing that way? What is the nurse's most accurate response after explaining the meaning of pH? He is breathing
  a. Fast and deep to help reduce carbon dioxide to increase his pH
  b. Slow and shallow to try to retain carbon dioxide to decrease his pH
  c. Fast and deep to help reduce carbon dioxide to decrease his pH
  d. Slow and shallow to try to retain carbon dioxide to increase his pH

Question 2

A patient had gastric surgery 10 days ago and continues to require gastric suction because of a paralytic ileus. The patient reports tingling in the fingers, has hypertonic reflexes,
 
  and has a respiratory rate of 8 breaths per minute that are deep in nature. The nurse recognizes that these symptoms are consistent with which diagnosis?
  a. Respiratory alkalosis
  b. Metabolic acidosis
  c. Respiratory acidosis
  d. Metabolic alkalosis


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amy.lauersdorf90

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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D


kfurse

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Wow, this really help

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