Question

A patient who had a myocardial infarction is experiencing severe chest pain and alerts the nurse. the nurse begins the assessment but suddenly the patient becomes unresponsive, no pulse, with the monitor showing a rapid, disorganized ventricular rhythm. what does the nurse interpret this rhythm to be?

Answer 1

The nurse interprets this rhythm to be a Ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular fibrillation is a heart rhythm problem where the heart cannot pump blood which makes it serious and can cause cardiac arrest, can result to no pulse and loss of consciousness of a person. Ventricular fibrillation is diagnosed during an electrocardiogram or ECG.