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codyclark

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The nurse is planning care for four postoperative patients. Which patient is most likely to develop postoperative complications?
 
  a. 36-year-old with a history of controlled diabetes
  b. 62-year-old with a history of hypothy-roidism
  c. 49-year-old with a history of a myocardial infarction (MI)
  d. 76-year-old with mild osteoarthritis

Question 2

The young father tells the industrial nurse at work that he is afraid he will give his 2-week-old baby his cold. The nurse can assure him that the baby is protected by which type of immunity?
 
  a. Acquired immunity
  b. Passive immunity
  c. Active immunity
  d. Passive natural immunity


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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Patients over the age of 75 are three times more likely to experience surgical complications. An older adult is less able to adjust and compensate for the stress of surgery, as physiologic reserves (cardiac, respiratory, and renal) have already declined with age.

Answer to Question 2

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Passive natural immunity is the immunity a baby gets from the mother, in utero or from breast milk, that lasts for the first several months of the baby's life.


codyclark

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Reply 2 on: Jun 25, 2018
Excellent

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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