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stevenposner

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on: Jul 22, 2018
The patient tells the nurse, I'm so nervous. I want to be knocked out for the surgery so that I don't know what is going on. When the nurse communicates with the surgeon and anesthetist, she tells them that the patient desires which type of anesthesia?
 
  1) Conscious sedation
  2) General anesthesia
  3) Local anesthesia
  4) Regional anesthesia

Question 2

A patient is admitted for hip surgery. The patient usually takes the following medications daily: an anticoagulant, a multivitamin, and vitamin E 1,500 IU. He stopped taking his anticoagulant 4 days ago as instructed by his surgeon,
 
  but has continued to take the multivitamin and vitamin E. An important collaborative problem or nursing diagnosis for this patient is which of the following?
  1) Potential complication: anemia
  2) Risk for infection related to inadequate anticoagulant dosage
  3) Risk for noncompliance related to inability to follow instructions
  4) Potential complication: increased bleeding


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leahchrapun

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

ANS: 2

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 4


stevenposner

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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Excellent

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