A patient is brought to the emergency department in hypertensive crisis. The nurse plans care to protect which bodily systems that are most implicated in compensating for this crisis?
1. Cardiac
2. Respiratory
3. Integumentary
4. Gastrointestinal
5. Renal
1,5
Rationale 1: The heart responds to hypertension by decreasing heart rate and stroke volume.
Rationale 2: The respiratory system does not help regulate blood pressure.
Rationale 3: The integumentary system does not help regulate blood pressure.
Rationale 4: The gastrointestinal system does not help regulate blood pressure.
Rationale 5: The kidney responds to hypertension by increasing urine output to decrease blood volume.
Global Rationale: The heart responds to hypertension by decreasing heart rate and stroke volume. The kidney responds to hypertension by increasing urine output to decrease blood volume. The remaining systems have no direct effect on the regulation of blood pressure.
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