A Nurse Caring for Clients with Heart Failure Must Be

question 88

Multiple Choice

A nurse caring for clients with heart failure must be aware of the compensatory mechanisms activated in heart failure.Which physiology is not associated with the neuroendocrine compensatory mechanism?

• A) Increased cardiac workload causes myocardial muscle to hypertrophy and ventricles to dilate.
• B) Decreased CO stimulates the sympathetic nervous system and catecholamine release.
• C) Decreased CO and decreased renal perfusion stimulate the renin-angiotensin system.
• D) Antidiuretic hormone is released from posterior pituitary.

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