Patient blood pressure drops rapidly

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During a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the patient's blood pressure drops rapidly in response to the pneumoperitoneum. The Anesthesia team reports that the patients blood pressure is not responding to the medications given, and the surgeon deactivates the CO2 insufflation. What should the Surgical Technologist do next?

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