When checking routine vital signs, you note that your client has an increase and then a decrease in pulse amplitude associated with respirations. Your client is exhibiting:
1. pulse bigeminy.
2. tachycardia.
3. pulsus paradoxus.
4. pulsus alternans.
ANS: 3
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