Multiple Choice
A healthcare professional is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at T5. The patient exhibits severe hypertension, a heart rate of 32 beats/min, and sweating above the spinal cord lesion. How does the professional chart this event?
A) Craniosacral dysreflexia
B) Parasympathetic dysreflexia
C) Autonomic hyperreflexia
D) Retrograde hyperreflexia
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