Following a motor vehicle accident, the patient is brought via ambulance to the emergency department (ED). The patient is unconscious during the mental status exam. The nurse attempts to arouse the patient by calling her name, but the patient does not respond. Following a firm sternal rub, the patient’s flexes the arms into the chest and moans. The nurse documents the patient’s Glasgow Coma Scale score as which number? Enter your response using a whole number.

The nurse is assigned a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma undergoing initial treatment. On the patient’s second day, he develops an acute painful swelling and erythema of the right gastrocnemius. The following morning, the patient develops an acute shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. Within minutes, the patient loses consciousness and dies. Which of the following interventions would most likely have prevented this patient’s death?

The patient’s wife tells the nurse, “Even though he had atrial fibrillation, he seemed fine. Why did he have a stroke?” Which response by the nurse is appropriate?