An Elderly Patient with a 40-Pack-Year History of Smoking and a Recent

An elderly patient with a 40-pack-year history of smoking and a recent myocardial infarction is admitted to the medical unit with acute shortness of breath; the nurse need to rule out pneumonia versus heart failure. The diagnostic test that the nurse will monitor to help in determining whether the patient has heart failure is

A) 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) .
B) arterial blood gases (ABGs) .
C) B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) .
D) serum creatine kinase (CK) .