The nurse receives an order to administer morphine to a client with an acute myocardial infarction. The purpose of this medication is to decrease myocardial oxygen demand.
Morphine will soothe and ease the client and reduce rate of respiration, anxiety as well as stress, thereby, decreasing myocardial oxygen demand. It does not have an impact on the cardiac output or the preload as well as the afterload.
Acute myocardial infarction, also called a heart attack, is a life-frightening situation. It takes place when the flow of blood to the heart muscle is suddenly cut off leading to tissue injury. This is generally the outcome of an obstruction in either a single or more coronary arteries.
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