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A Patient Is Being Prepared for a Transvenous Pacemaker

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A patient is being prepared for a transvenous pacemaker. What should the nurse include when explaining this pacemaker to the family?


A) "It is inserted using an internal jugular vein."
B) "It is done by placing defibrillator pads on the torso using an anterior/posterior position."
C) "It is done by placing a pacer wire in the atrium or the ventricle and fed out through the skin, where it is attached to an external pacemaker."
D) "It is inserted by placing pacer wires in the atrium, ventricle, or both and attached to a small pacemaker generator placed under the skin near the clavicle."

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