The nurse is caring for an infant in the NICU.While taking vital signs,the nurse finds that the baby's heart rate is 195.The nurse calls the physician,knowing that the normal heart rate should be:
A)60 to 100 beats per minute.
B)100 to 160 beats per minute.
C)90 to 140 beats per minute.
D)220 beats per minute or higher.

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The infant's heart rate at birth ranges from 100 to 160 beats per minute at rest.By adolescence,the heart rate varies between 60 and 100 beats per minute and remains so throughout adulthood.By age 2,the pulse rate slows to 90 to 140 beats per minute.

The Nurse Is Caring for an Infant in the NICU