SVT interventions - ✔️✔️Bear down (vagal maneuver) and give adenosine
Afib rhythm strip characteristics - ✔️✔️no P waves and QRS complexes are not regular
in rhythm
3rd degree heart block characteristics - ✔️✔️P waves are varying distances from the
QRS complexes and there is no rhyme or reason to the way the heart is beating, this is
an emergency
Inferior wall MI patient may experience - ✔️✔️bradycardia, heart blocks, decreased
perfusion
Heart transplant patient teaching - ✔️✔️change positions slowly, heart has not
connected to the nervous system yet, at risk for orthostatic hypotension
Important for surgical patients - ✔️✔️ensure the patient has running water at home to
keep the healing wound/incision clean
Interventions for an abrupt stop in chest tube drainage - ✔️✔️check for kinks in the
tubing, ensure the drainage container is below chest level, call the doc. DO NOT
reposition the tubing.
Abrupt stop in chest tube drainage could indicate what - ✔️✔️a blood clot
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