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You Are Monitoring Blood Pressure During Mechanical Ventilation of a Patient

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You are monitoring blood pressure during mechanical ventilation of a patient with pneumonia. A temporary increase in blood pressure occurs when the patient coughs. This temporary spike in blood pressure represents what type of variability?


A) artifact
B) factitious event
C) physiologic variation
D) instrument drift

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