A 78-year-old client is admitted to the emergency department with a heart rate of 34 beats/minute....
A 78-year-old client is admitted to the emergency department with a heart rate of 34 beats/minute. Family members tell the nurse that the client may have mistakenly taken several doses of donepezil. The nurse should anticipate what intervention to treat the client's bradycardia?
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ANSWER.
* Bradycardia is one of the adverse effect of Donepazil overdose.
* Atropine is a drug of choice for Donepazil overdose.
* Atropine is an anticholnergic drug act by restrict the action of parasympathetic
system thereby it helps to increase heart rate.
* So nurse should anticipate atropine injection to treat this client's bradycardia.
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