The nurse administers clopidogrel (Plavix) appropriately to the patient with what condition?
A) Maintaining the patency of grafts
B) Treating peripheral artery disease
C) Preventing emboli from valve replacements
D) Dissolving a pulmonary embolus and improving oxygenation
B
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Clopidogrel is used to inhibit platelet aggregation, decreasing the formation of clots in narrowed or injured blood vessels like those found in peripheral artery disease. Maintaining the patency of grafts or preventing emboli from valve replacements would be accomplished using an anticoagulant. Dissolving emboli would be accomplished using streptokinase or a similar enzyme to stimulate the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin.
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