A patient is demonstrating a heart rate of 50 beats per minute with hypotension and dizziness. The nurse should be prepared to do which of the following to help this patient?
1. nothing, no treatment is indicated
2. administer anti-anxiety medication
3. administer atropine
4. administer antipyretic medication
3
Rationale: Sinus bradycardia is not treated unless the person experiences symptoms of decreased cardiac output, such as syncope, hypotension, and angina. Symptomatic sinus bradycardia is treated by administering atropine because it blocks the parasympathetic innervation to the SA node, allowing normal sympathetic innervation to gain control and increase SA node firing. The patient is symptomatic so atropine is indicated. Administering anti-anxiety medication or antipyretic medication would be indicated if the patient were demonstrating sinus tachycardia.
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