The nurse prepares the nursing student for the administration of which short-acting cardiovascular drug that can be used to help maintain the patient’s ventricular function after cardiac surgery?
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- Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
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- Category: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
- Difficulty: 7
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