A 46-year-old woman with a second early-stage primary cancer in her left breast has elected to have a bilateral mastectomy with saline implants. She has requested that the surgeon also revise a small unsightly scar on her right knee and pierce her ears. While the patient’s breast tumor could be treated with an excisional biopsy, she has decided to have a mastectomy of both breasts, which is considered an appropriate preemptive (preventative) surgery for a woman of her age with two primary cancers of the breast. The saline implant insertion surgery is considered a _______________ procedure, the scar revision is considered a ___________ procedure, and the ear-piercing is considered a _______________ procedure.

What should the surgical assistant do to aid the surgeon while they are performing the surgical incision?

The factors that affect the process of labor and birth, known commonly as the 5 P’s include all but:

What is the purpose of adding Hyaluronidase to a local anesthetic such as Lidocaine?

What is the name of the largest muscle in the neck that extends from the upper part of the sternum to the mastoid process?

The extraocular muscles work in yoked pairs, with ocular movements generated by an increase in the tone of one set of muscles and a decrease in the tone of the antagonistic muscles. Of the two muscle types, how many are represented in each eye?

A 26-year-old primigravida experiencing severe abdominal pain is brought to the emergency department by ambulance with a suspected ruptured tubal pregnancy. Which is the priority nursing action?

What is used to cover sites with poor vascularity or full-thickness tissue loss?

Which compensatory changes occur in the cardiovascular system during pregnancy? Select all that apply. One, some, or all responses may be correct.

Which of the following procedures involves removal of the breast tumor mass and 1 to 1.5 mm margin of surrounding tissue?