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11. A patient needs to improve the range of motion in a knee joint after having knee replacement surgery. Which health-care team member should the LPN expect to be included in the plan of care?

To tie off a vessel in a deep surgical wound, the surgical technologist would pass a:

__________ is the condition where the communicating artery between the pulmonary artery and the aorta, essential in the fetus, remains open and shunts blood away from the lungs. 

What is the name of this common thoracic specialty instrument. It is designed to remove rib(s) to access the thoracic cavity to perform a lobectomy.

What is the general term for the incurable condition of the heart resulting in hypertrophic and enlarged ventricles with ineffective intractability and a decrease in cardiac output? The only curative treatment would be heart transplantation.

When a fiberoptic cable is used, it must not be activated until it is attached to the system. The intense beam can________.

An abnormal, congenital opening in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart is known as a/an ____.

Patients routinely will have ____ included in their pre-operative orders for cardiac surgical intervention to prepare for blood replacement.

The pathology in which the subclavian artery is compressed resulting in severe ischemia of the upper extremity is a/an ____. 

During VATS procedures, ___ is used to aid in visualization of the relative anatomical structures.