The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient with MODS Secondary

question 20

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a patient with MODS secondary to septic shock whose urine output was 10 mL for the last 2 hours. Temperature is 97 degrees, pulse is 124 and thready, and BP is 88/

• A) Place the patient on a warming blanket.
• B) Administer isotonic fluids at 20 mL/kg/hr.
• C) Draw blood for BUN and creatinine.
• D) Place the patient in a kinetic bed.
• 48. Which order is the current priority?

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