Exam 43: Amputations

The patient with peripheral vascular disease (PVD)and diabetes asks what he can do to help prevent an amputation.The nurse is quick to respond:

A patient who amputated his thumb in a lawnmower accident hands the emergency department nurse his thumb in a glass jar.The nurse should:

Preoperative exercises for a patient undergoing a lower-extremity amputation include ____________________ training.

Because of the anticoagulant in the saliva of leeches,they are used to treat which one of the following in the patient who has undergone replantation of a body part?

The nurse is aware that the patient who is having his leg amputated is also having a prosthesis fitted during the surgery at the same time.The preoperative teaching plan will include the fact that:

To reduce the possibility of hip contractures in a patient with an above-the-knee amputation,the nurse periodically places the patient in a _________________ position.

The 80-year-old man with diabetes has had vascular problems with his feet and lower legs for 10 years and is scheduled for a left below-the-knee amputation.The remark by the patient that indicates an understanding of the procedure is:

The greatest danger in the early postoperative period after an amputation is:

The nurse discriminates between an open and a closed amputation by saying that a closed amputation is designed to:

To prevent the loss of calcium and protein,the nurse reminds the patient with a recent below-the-knee amputation that he should:

The nurse excitedly tells the patient about the myoelectrically controlled prosthesis,the movement of which is controlled by:

The nurse explains that for an elbow disarticulation,the limb will be severed:

When the patient asks when he should expect to be up and walking after his below-the-knee amputation,the nurse assures him that most amputees can fully bear weight in: