A nurse cares for a client who is on a cardiac monitor.The monitor displayed the rhythm shown below:

Which action should the nurse take first?

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A nurse cares for a client who is on a cardiac monitor.The monitor displayed the rhythm shown below:

Which action should the nurse take first?

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Ventricular tachycardia occurs with repetitive firing of an irritable ventricular ectopic focus,usually at a rate of 140 to 180 beats/min or more.Ventricular tachycardia is a lethal dysrhythmia.The nurse should first assess if the client is alert and breathing.Then the nurse should call a Code Blue and begin CPR.If this client is pulseless,the treatment of choice is defibrillation.Amiodarone is the antidysrhythmic of choice,but it is not the first action.

A Nurse Cares for a Client Who Is on a Cardiac