the nurse is caring for a client in the coronary care unit when the cardiac monitor reveals ventricular fibrillation and the client becomes unresponsive. the nurse should anticipate which intervention?

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Whenever the cardiac monitor shows ventricular, the nurse should expect immediate defibrillation while tending to a patient in the coronary unit.

The definition of instantaneous defibrillation is ?

Ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia are examples of rapidly life-threatening arrhythmias for which the patient has no pulse (VT). Any procedure intended to restore sinus rhythm to an arrhythmia is known as cardioversion.

Why is defibrillation performed in the initial minutes?

Since time to defibrillation is a major factor in VF survival, medical professionals advise that defibrillation be tried as as possible that after onset of cardiac arrest. Defibrillators are machines that shock or pulse an electric current into the heart to get it beating normally again.

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