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Right after a large-bore internal jugular CVC is placed, the nurse transduces the distal port and sees a pulsatile waveform reading 118/64. Blood from the port is bright red, and a gas drawn from it shows a PaO2 of 210 on FiO2 0.40. The provider is still in the room. What should the nurse do?

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