NCLEX Style Study Question
Correct answer now posted by Tanya…
A client with chronic lymphocytic leukemia has a central venous access device. She has a tunneled central catheter called a Hickman. The nurse knows that this catheter is inserted surgically and threaded to the subclavian, and then is advanced into the superior vena cava just above the junction with the
- left atrium
- right atrium
- left ventricle
- right ventricle
March 27th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Its the right atrium
March 27th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
#2
Right atrium
March 27th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I’m not sure but I would say the right atrium
March 27th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
it threaded into the Right atria
March 27th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
2
March 28th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
2
March 28th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
the right atrium
March 30th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
R atrium
March 30th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
right atrium
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:15 pm
right ventricle
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Correct answer: 2
The right atrium is the correct answer. The superior vena cava brings deoxygenated blood to the right atrium. The central venous catheter is threaded into the superior vena cava approximately 2 to 3 cm above the junction with the right atrium.