Elderly client is admitted with severe substernal chest pain

Assignment Help Science

Reference no: EM133720575

Question

The elderly client is admitted with severe substernal chest pain, tachypnea and tachycardia. The client's skin is cool and clammy. The client becomes listless and has decrease in level of consciousness. The nurse correctly identifies the cause of the client's symptoms as which process?

Reference no: EM133720575

Questions Cloud

Incontinent who requires frequent linen changes : The nurse is caring for a 60 year old client with a diagnosis of C-diff and is incontinent who requires frequent linen changes.

Universal flu vaccine in animal models : What techniques can be used to measure the immune response to a universal flu vaccine in animal models,

Maintaining professional boundaries is sufficiently protect : Which of following is trauma-informed action Simone should take as a supervisor? Tell her staff that maintaining professional boundaries is sufficiently protect

Adopt nursing informatics literature : Explain why it was important for nursing schools to adopt nursing informatics literature.

Elderly client is admitted with severe substernal chest pain : The elderly client is admitted with severe substernal chest pain, tachypnea and tachycardia. The client's skin is cool and clammy.

Frequent episodes of oral and nasal ulcers : African - American female who presents with profound fatigue, sore hands and wrists, and frequent episodes of oral and nasal ulcers.

Immediately administered sublingually : A patient reports chest pain and a nitroglycerine tablet is immediately administered sublingually.

Total parenteral nutrition : The primary health care provider prescribes that the total parenteral nutrition be weaned down by 50 mL/hr/day until discontinued.

Outcomes data collected by nursing informatics specialists : Propose an example of outcomes data collected by nursing informatics specialists. Hospital admission rates of patients with heart failure

User Account

All Pages