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mpobi80

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Which patients would be at greatest risk during surgery?
 
  a. 78-year-old taking an analgesic agent
  b. 43-year-old taking an antihypertensive agent
  c. 27-year-old taking an anticoagulant agent
  d. 10-year-old taking an antibiotic agent

Question 2

An appendectomy during a hysterectomy would be classified as
 
  a. major, emergency, diagnostic.
  b. major, urgent, palliative.
  c. minor, elective, ablative.
  d. minor, urgent, reconstructive.



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Answer to Question 1

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Anticoagulants alter normal clotting factors and thus increase risk of hemorrhaging. They should be discontinued for 48 hours before surgery.

Answer to Question 2

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Surgery is classified as elective, urgent, or emergency. Surgery is performed for various purposes, which include diagnostic studies, ablation (an amputation or excision of any part of the body or removal of a growth or harmful substance), and palliative (therapy to relieve or reduce intensity of uncomfortable symptoms without cure), reconstructive, transplant, and constructive purposes.




mpobi80

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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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