Sheila Connors, a 59-year-old victim of an MVA is brought to the ICU where you practice nursing after being stabilized in the ED. Her diagnosis includes head trauma and she is being closely observed for signs and symptoms of increasing intracranial pressure. Sheila is exhibiting nonverbal indications she is quite in pain. Why should you avoid the administration of narcotic analgesics in her case

The correct answer is - narcotic analgesics can leads to the increases intracranial pressure that leads to the decreasing in the arterial pressure.

Explanation:

Narcotic analgesics are the medicines that are the used to treat the acute pain in an individual. These are the class of drug also known as opioid. Sheila is experiencing increasing intracranial pressure and non verbal indication of pain.

Opioid can not be administrated in this case as it leads to the increasing in the intracranial pressure as it induce vasoconstriction and decreased cerebral blood flow and sheila already experiencing elevating intracranial pressure which leads to decreased arterial blood pressure.

Thus, the correct answer is -  narcotic analgesics can leads to the increases intracranial pressure that leads to the decreasing in the arterial pressure.