1. You are working in the intensive care unit, and your patient’s heart rate sud

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1. You are working in the intensive care unit, and your patient’s heart rate suddenly decreases from 88 to 50 beats per minute. What may be some of the reasons for the decreased heart rate? What assessments will you make?

2. Discuss why patients with pulmonary disease are prone to atrial dysrhythmias.

3. A 65-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes pre­sents to the emergency department; she is short of breath and complaining of neck and shoulder pain. Her blood pressure is 185/95, and her heart rate is 155. How will you initially manage this patient? What medical intervention would you anticipate? List serious signs and symptoms of hemodynamic instability in a patient with a tachycardia dysrhythmia.

4. Why does a tachycardia sometimes lead to heart failure?

Explanation / Answer

1. The decrease in heart rate is known as BRADYCARDIA. in this case we saw that patient heart rate came to 50 beats , several disease conditions might lead to this as assesment is made upon examining the following consequences by several examination methods-

A.coronary artery disease, endocarditis and myocarditis.

B. low thyroid hormone level may cause this.

c. congestive cardiomyopathy may cause it. it is the condition when the pumping capacity of heart is reduced.

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