Week 6 TUES

Question 1

What is important to teach parents about cardiac catheterization

Answer 1

the catheter will be placed in the femoral artery

Question 2

After a cardiac cath what is the most important intervention?

Answer 2

taking pedal pulses for the first 4 hours after

Question 3

What apical pulse would warrant nurse w/ holding digoxin on a 6 month old?

Answer 3

80 bpm

Question 4

explain “excess fluid volume” to families

Answer 4

cardiac problems cause the heart to not pump effectively, which causes swelling in the body

Question 5

explain what hypoplastic left heart to a family means

Answer 5

problem where the left side of the heart didn’t develop properly

Question 6

Health hx that makes nurse suspect CV disorder in a 6 wk boy

Answer 6

“he gets sweaty when he eats”

Question 7

What is the best position for a child to be placed to promote optimal benefits w/ a structural defect while receiving O2 therapy?

Answer 7

Semi- fowlers