The nurse is caring for a client with a pulmonary artery (PA) catheter with four lumens. Which of the following nursing actions is appropriate for the proximal port of this catheter?

Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu

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Question

The nurse is caring for a client with a pulmonary artery (PA) catheter with four lumens. Which of the following nursing actions is appropriate for the proximal port of this catheter? 
 
   Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu   
 
 ID: 137304

Accepted Answer

The nurse connects an ordered infusion for 0.45 normal saline at 50mL/hour

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The nurse attaches a transducer in order to obtain a pulmonary artery waveform on the cardiac monitor

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The nurse uses the catheter to withdraw a mixed venous gas

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The nurse inflates the catheter balloon to obtain a pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP)

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