The AG-ACNP is seeing a 70-year-old female patient with a si…
The AG-ACNP is seeing a 70-year-old female patient with a significant history of COPD and 3 months status post right total knee replacement who woke up this morning with severe dyspnea. The chest x-ray was inconclusive of pertinent findings, therefore a CT of the chest was completed. The CT angiogram of the chest was positive for a pulmonary embolism in the right upper lobe. Two hours later the patient’s vital signs changed and she is now tachycardic to 130s, blood pressure 64/48, respiratory rate 30, SaO2 80%. The AG-ACNP identifies this type of shock as: