The nurse is assessing the heart rate of a child with a congenital heart defect. What should the nurse document when a pulse of one strong beat and one weak beat is assessed?
A) Dicrotic pulse
B) Thready pulse
C) Pulsus alternans
D) Water hammer pulse
C
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Pulsus alternans is a pulse of one strong beat and one weak beat. Dicrotic pulse is a double radial pulse for every apical beat. Thready pulse is weak and usually rapid. Water hammer pulse is very forceful and bounding with capillary pulsations apparent even in the fingernails.
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