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A 68-Year-Old Man with an Extensive Left Retinal Detachment Is

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A 68-year-old man with an extensive left retinal detachment is scheduled for a scleral buckling with cryopexy and pneumatic retinopexy.Preoperatively,the nurse prepares the patient for postoperative expectations by explaining which of the following?


A) He will need to wear dark or tinted glasses to protect his eyes from ultraviolet light.
B) He will have to wear bilateral eye patches to reduce movement of the operative eye.
C) He will not have a return of lost vision,but the surgery will prevent further loss of vision in his left eye.
D) He will have to maintain a prescribed head position to maintain contact of the bubble with the retinal break.

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