While instructing a patient on what occurs with a myocardial infarction, the nurse plans to explain which process?
a. Coronary artery spasm.
b. Decreased blood flow (ischemia).
c. Death of cardiac muscle from lack of oxygen (tissue necrosis).
d. Sporadic decrease in oxygen to the heart (transient oxygen imbalance).
C
Acute myocardial infarction is death (tissue necrosis) of the myocardium that is caused by lack of blood supply from the occlusion of a coronary artery and its branches.
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