Which patient does the nurse classify as facing the highest surgical risk?

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The 6-month-old patient has the risks of very young age,cardiac problems,and liver disease and can be assumed to take multiple medications,making this the patient with the highest risk.Although the 40-year-old patient has an alteration in liver function,there are no other risk factors - and the patient's drug use occurred in the past.Although the 83-year-old patient has the risk factors of older age and hypertension,this is not the patient with the highest risk because the infant has even more risk factors.The 28-year-old patient has two risk factors (anticoagulants and mitral valve prolapse)and is not the one with the highest risk.

Which Patient Does the Nurse Classify as Facing the Highest