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The patient is admitted with injuries that were sustained in a fall. During the nurse’s first assessment upon admission, the findings are: blood pressure 90/60 (as compared to 136/66 in the emergency department), flaccid paralysis on the right, absent bowel sounds, zero urine output, and palpation of a distended bladder. These signs are consistent with which of the following?
1. paralysis
2. spinal shock
3. high cervical injury
4. temporary hypovolemia
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11 years ago Edited: 11 years ago, Kassie
2. spinal shock

All relate to the first stage of shock, when the body's normal homeostasis is out of whack, blood pressure is lowered as well as urine output due to the injury that placed the patient in a state of muscle tone loss from the fall
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