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Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle
Edition 13ISBN: 9781469831770Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle
Edition 13ISBN: 9781469831770 Exercise 4
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.
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.Explanation
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Ventilation perfusion imbalance is the w...
Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle
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