A nurse explains the purpose of echocardiography to a client as
a. a picture of both the structures in the heart and their motion.
b. an image of the heart and great vessels from a posterior view.
c. hemodynamic pressure monitoring and analysis of oxygenation.
d. the use of extra contrast dye to visualize pulmonary arteries.
A
The echocardiogram essentially provides a continuous picture of the beating heart. Option b re-fers to a transesophageal echocardiogram, option c to a right heart catheterization, and option d to a CT scan using the pulmonary embolus protocol.
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