While caring for a patient with a spinal cord injury (SCI), the nurse elevates the head of the bed, removes compression stockings, and continues to assess vital signs every 2 to 3 minutes while searching for the cause in order to prevent loss of consciousness or death. By completing these interventions, which health problem is the nurse preventing as the most dangerous complication of autonomic dysreflexia?
A. Elevated blood pressure
B. Hypoxia
C. Tachycardia
D. Bradycardia
Answer: A
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