Calculate P/F ratio

When assessing your patient in ICU, you note the CVP has increased from 4 mmHg to 14 mmHg.  Concerned with an inaccurately high reading, which of the following bedside assessments would estimate the patients CVP.

A 65-year-old woman with a history of COPD was discovered unconscious at home 4 hours ago. She is now intubated and is receiving mechanical ventilation.  A flow-directed pulmonary artery catheter has been inserted. Relevant data below.  Pulse    136/min Blood pressure    76/60 mmHg Pulmonary artery pressure    17/6 mmHg Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure    4 mmHg Cardiac output   3.8 L/min Systemic vascular resistance    1354 dynes/sec/cm-5 Central venous pressure    1 mmHg The most likely cause of this patient’s hypotension is

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What effect would hypervolemia and pulmonary edema have on pulmonary artery pressure?

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