A student nurse is assisting with the care of a 50-year-old man who is being treated in the emergency department for hypothermia.The student asks the charge nurse why the patient is having his heart monitored.The nurse's best explanation would be that the heart is being monitored because serious arrhythmias can be caused by:
A) rapidly rising blood pressure from infusing IV fluids.
B) adrenal output of epinephrine in response to cold stress.
C) lactic acid being shunted from pooled blood in the extremities.
D) vasodilation from the warming process.
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