A child is born with a hole in his heart between the left and right ventricles. This condition must be immediately corrected with surgery because the hole ________
A) will allow blood to leak out of the heart and the child could bleed to death
B) will cause blood to flow in the reverse direction back into veins instead of the arteries
C) allows mixing of both oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, which reduces oxygen delivery to tissues
D) will cause the flow of blood to reverse in the heart
Answer: C
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