Check Your Understanding Questions
1
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Name five factors that can affect a patient’s heart rate.
2
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Why would you expect a patient with a MAP of 50 mm Hg to have weak or absent pulses in the extremities?
3
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In your own words, explain the relationship between systole and diastole.
4
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What do you do if your patient with a history of COPD has a SpO2 of 90 percent on room air?
5
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Sam’s patient has called the doctor’s office in a panic because his blood pressure is 200/110. What should Sam do?