While caring for a patient being hemodynamically monitored, the nurse notices that the systemic vascular resistance has risen to 1800 dynes/sec/cm5, whereas the patient's cardiac output remains at 6 liters per minute. What would the nurse expect the patient's blood pressure to be?
1. Increased
2. Unchanged
3. Decreased
4. Initially decreased, and then increased
Answer: 1
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