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Title: A patient is obese. At the bedside is a standard-size blood pressure cuff. The nurse realizes that ...
Post by: Anastasia26 on Jan 18, 2018
A patient is obese. At the bedside is a standard-size blood pressure cuff. The nurse realizes that the use of this cuff will provide which of the following?
 
  a. Accurate readings as long as it is 20 of the circumference of the midpoint of the limb.
  b. Indistinct readings if the bladder encircles 80 of the adult's arm.
  c. A falsely low reading if the cuff is wrapped too loosely around the arm.
  d. Inaccurate readings and needs to be replaced with a larger cuff.


Title: A patient is obese. At the bedside is a standard-size blood pressure cuff. The nurse realizes that ...
Post by: bericky97 on Jan 18, 2018
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