Parents bring a 10-month-old boy with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt to the emergency department. his symptoms include vomiting, poor feeding, lethargy, and irritability. what interventions by the nurse are appropriate? select all that apply.

The nurse can check if the ventriculoperitoneal shunt is either clogged, is not working, and if the length is still appropriate for the child’s current height or length. Checking the length is important because the child is growing and the previous length of the shunt might be too short for it to function well.

the oxygenated blood then leaves the lungs through pulmonary veins, which return it to the left heart, completing the pulmonary cycle. this blood then enters the left atrium, which pumps it through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. from the left ventricle, the blood passes through the aortic valve to the aorta.

deoxygenated blood leaves through the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery. from the right atrium, the blood is pumped through the tricuspid valve (or right atrioventricular valve), into the right ventricle.