A Patient Who Takes Digoxin to Treat Heart Failure Will

question 1

Multiple Choice

A patient who takes digoxin to treat heart failure will begin taking a vasodilator.The patient asks the nurse why this new drug has been ordered.The nurse will explain that the vasodilator is used to

• A)decrease ventricular stretching.
• B)improve renal perfusion.
• C)increase cardiac output.
• D)promote peripheral fluid loss.

---

Definitions:

Fragmentation

A method of asexual reproduction in some bacteria, archaea, animals, or plants; a cell or an organism separates into several pieces and each piece develops into a new organism.

Sporogenesis

The process of spore formation, particularly in plants, fungi, and protozoa.

Fission

The division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts into separate entities resembling the original.

Budding

Asexual reproduction in which a small part of the parent’s body separates from the rest and develops into a new individual; characteristic of yeasts and certain other organisms.