A patient is being maintained under neuromuscular blockade-induced paralysis. Analgesia is also being provided. The level of paralysis is being measured by the train-of-four method. The nurse evaluates that the patient's sedation is adequate when which response occurs?
1. The patient moans when medications for analgesia are reduced.
2. The patient withdraws from a series of four applications of cold water into the ear.
3. The patient's thumb twitches twice when an electrical impulse is applied.
4. The patient responds to at least one of four applications of digital pressure over pressure points.
Answer: 3
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