A patient is receiving a norepinephrine (Levophed®) drip at 6 mcg/kg/min. He reports a sudden onset...
A patient is receiving a norepinephrine (Levophed®) drip at 6 mcg/kg/min. He reports a sudden onset of periumbilical pain; his blood pressure is 92/62. What should the nurse do next?
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a. Contact the provider and anticipate discontinuing the drip. |
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b. Continue the drip at the current rate. |
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c. Decrease the rate and check for rectal impaction. |
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d. Increase the rate to improve blood pressure and intestinal blood flow. |
Homework Answers
Norepinephrine is used to treat severely hypotensive patients.The drop can be stopped or tapered down when the systolic blood pressure is above 60mmHg.The common side effects are bradycardia,dyspnea, weakness, pain and redness at injection site,arrhythmia, chest pain ,confusion ,headache, extremely elevated blood pressure ,cyanosis,numbness but periumblical pain is not related to it,so it has to be reported to the provider to rule out the actual cause of pain and the nurse can anticipate to stop the norepinephrine because the systolic blood pressure is 92mmHg
Ans:a.contact the provider and anticipate to discontinuing the drip.
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