Question

A nurse is the cardiac care unit is preparing to hang an intravenous dose of dofetilide (tikosyn) for a patient who has just been admitted. what is the most likely goal of this intervention?

Answer 1

The most likely goal is to change the patient's atrial fibrillation to normal sinus rhythm.

Step-by-step explanation:

For the treatment of atrial fibrillation the most appropriate will depend on the time the patient has atrial fibrillation, the discomfort of the symptoms and the cause of atrial fibrillation. The goals of treatment are:

• Restoring the rhythm

• Stop blood clots.

For the treatment of atrial fibrillation, heart rate and rhythm return to abnormality. To treat the condition, doctors restore the heart to its normal rhythm, also called sinus rhythm, with a procedure called cardioversion.

Answer 2

Mostly the goal for the intervention mentioned above is dofetilide is being utilized to make the patients into a normal sinus rhythm from Atrial Fibrillation to remain the rhythm of the patient into sinus one. The drug mentioned is not being utilized to cure bradycardia or the heart failure.