The nurse is caring for a client with a pulmonary artery (PA) catheter in the intensive care unit (ICU). Which of the following actions by the nurse would warrant immediate action?

Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu

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Question

The nurse is caring for a client with a pulmonary artery (PA) catheter in the intensive care unit (ICU). Which of the following actions by the nurse would warrant immediate action? 
 
   Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu   
 
 ID: 137304

Accepted Answer

The nurse inflates the balloon with 3 mL of air

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The nurse labels the balloon port with a note stating not to infuse fluids

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The nurse uses the cardiac monitor to measure the amplitude of the pulmonary artery waveform

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The nurse draws a mixed venous gas via the distal port of the catheter

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