PN3

Cardiac Normal cardiac output- Normal cardiac output is 60-100 beats per minute. If below 60 is brady cardia and the patient is at risk for poor perfusion. Cardiac output is defined as the amount of b lood pumped from the left ventricle each minute. Remember that arrhythmia is a deviation from a normal rhythm and a dysrhythmia is a disturbance in the normal rhythm. Medications for: contractility, maintaining normal blood pressure, various tachycardias, bradycardias, different degrees of AV block...