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faduma

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Your assessment of a postoperative client shows a distended abdomen, absent bowel sounds and abdominal pain 72 hours after abdominal surgery. Which do you suspect?
 
  1. bowel obstruction
  2. constipation
  3. paralytic ileus
  4. normal post-operative course

Question 2

To prevent development of the complication constipation in a postoperative client, you would have the client do which of the following?
 
  1. Drink plenty of coffee and sit in a chair four times a day.
  2. Ambulate in the room twice a day and eat a high-fiber diet.
  3. Drink up to 3000 mL of fluid daily, and ambulate.
  4. Undergo digital rectal stimulation daily.


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Ahernandez18

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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: 3

Answer to Question 2

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faduma

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Reply #2 on: Jul 22, 2018
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