Client is given a drug that causes vasoconstriction?

Question

What effect on blood pressure should the nurse expect when the client is given a drug that causes vasoconstriction?

a. Increased diastolic blood pressure

b. Decreased diastolic blood pressure

c. Increased systolic blood pressure

d. Decreased systolic blood pressure

Answer 1

c.....i think. Vasoconstrictors do raise the bp, not decrease.

Answer 2

think of what happens when one somkes as nicotine is a vascoconstrictior.  it's c

Answer 3

Client? Wow ... Im going to work with the term patient if you dont mind ...

There are different type of drugs known as pressors that elevate blood pressure ... and some can be site specific ....

I will work with the generic term vasoconstrictor .... As the name implies, vasoconstrictor drugs contract the smooth muscle in blood vessels, which causes the vessels to constrict. Constriction of arterial (resistance) vessels increases systemic vascular resistance, which leads to an increase in arterial blood pressure. This would increase both systolic and diastolic but to alesser extent (diastolic).

So I am going to go with C!

Thanks for indulging me!

Answer 4

My systolic blood pressure just rose in response to a catecholamine release that in turn was caused by an idiot at the administrative level in nursing. Clients, despite what you're taught, are never given vasoconstrictors. Patients are. This is a fad in serious need of battling. And if you persist with that "client" stuff, please don't ever have anything to do with my care.

Answer 5

PATIENT, not client.  Seriously, don't even start with the client stuff.  Lawyers have clients.  Physicians and nurses have patients.

The patient will have increased systolic blood pressures.  Diastolic pressure may also go up.