In: Nursing
1. A patient comes from surgery after a femoral bypass with a heparin drip running through a pump. What nursing assessments should be made to monitor this patient’s postoperative progress? The operative record indicates that the patient has had a total of 50,000 units of heparin during the operative procedure. The postoperative orders do not state a specific rate of flow for the heparin drip, which is currently running through the pump at 8 mL/hr. What actions should be taken by the nurse?
2. Why is it usually necessary to use a combination of drugs to treat heart failure?
When nurse is assessing the patient comes from surgery after a femoral bypass with a heparin drip running through a pump,
Post operative continuation of heparin drip is based on the prescription to continue.
If there is no prescription, stop the drip and check for any bleeding.
2.
Heart failure may have number of causes. And it is fatal condition, where can't wait for effectiveness of one drug.
It may be
So that to treat heart failure, combination of drugs are required