A 48-year-old male presents with complaints of chest pain, s…
A 48-year-old male presents with complaints of chest pain, shortness of breath, and coughing up frothy sputum for the past 2 days. The patient was discharged 1 week ago with STEMI and cardiac catheterization with stenting in the left anterior descending artery. The patient’s chest x-ray shows blunting of the costophrenic angles. The decubitus chest x-ray shows free-flowing fluid collection greater than 1 cm. What is the AG-ACNP’s priority action for this patient?