Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

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A 32-year-old woman who was admitted with acute shortness of breath and chestpain from a pulmonary embolism has been stabilized and transferred to your unit.Currently a nursing student, she tells you that she overheard the doctors say that shehad a imbalance.She asks you to explain what this means.She also wants tobetter understand the differences between the diagnostic tests that she had during heradmission, which included ABGs, chest x-ray, chest CT, and a scan, and wonderswhy she did not have a pulmonary angiogram.Describe the major differencesbetween these tests and related nursing implications.