Question

A client presenting to the emergency department with chest pain and dizziness is found to be having a myocardial infarction and subsequently suffers cardiac arrest. the healthcare team is able to successfully resuscitate the client. lab work shows that the client now is acidotic. how does the nurse interpret the cause of the acidosis?

Answer 1

The nurse should interpret the cause of acidosis as a function of the client's myocardial infarction which resulted in a failure of the client's respiratory system to remove a sufficient amount of CO2 from their system.