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futuristic

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What is inspiratory capacity?
 
  a. The amount of air in the lung after a maximal inhalation
  b. The amount of air moved with each normal inhalation and expiration
  c. The amount of air that can be inhaled in one breath from the resting expiratory level
  d. The amount of air that can be forcefully exhaled after maximum inhalation

Question 2

The patient is on postoperative day 1 after having undergone a TURP procedure. He has continuous bladder irrigation (CBI).
 
  Actual urine output during continuous bladder irrigation is calculated by:
  a.
  measuring and recording all fluid output in the drainage bag.
  b.
  measuring the total output and deducting the total of the irrigating and intravenous solutions.
  c.
  adding the total of the intravenous and irrigating solutions and then deducting the amount of output.
  d.
  measuring total output and deducting the amount of irrigating solution used.


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lucas dlamini

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Inspiratory capacity is the volume of air that can be inhaled in one breath from the resting expiratory level.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
To determine urine output, the nurse will subtract the amount of irrigation fluid used with the Foley catheter output to calculate urine output.


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

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Gracias!

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