Biology · Nursing Care
A patient is 2 hours post-coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The nurse observes that the chest tube has drained 300 mL of bloody fluid in the past hour. What should the nurse do first?
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- 1Inform the surgeon right away✓
- 2Record it as normal drainage
- 3Clamp the chest tube to slow the bleeding
- 4Give a prescribed diuretic immediately
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Inform the surgeon right away
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