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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher
Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher
Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783 Exercise 10
A preoperative patient reveals that an uncle died during surgery because of a fever and cardiac arrest.Knowing the patient is at risk for malignant hyperthermia, the perioperative nurse alerts the surgical team.What is likely to happen next?
A) The surgery will have to be cancelled.
B) Specific precautions can be taken to safely anesthetize the patient.
C) Dantrolene (Dantrium) must be given to prevent hyperthermia during surgery.
D) The patient should be placed on a cooling blanket during the surgical procedure.
A) The surgery will have to be cancelled.
B) Specific precautions can be taken to safely anesthetize the patient.
C) Dantrolene (Dantrium) must be given to prevent hyperthermia during surgery.
D) The patient should be placed on a cooling blanket during the surgical procedure.
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B. Although malignant hyperthermia can r...
Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher
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