You are providing the preoperative teaching for a patient scheduled for surgery. You know to instruct the patient on the use of deep breathing, coughing, and the use of incentive spirometry. What is the rationale for these interventions?
A) To promote wound healing
B) To promote optimal lung expansion
C) To enhance peripheral circulation
D) To increase gas formation
Ans: B
Feedback: One goal of preoperative nursing care is to teach the patient how to promote optimal lung expansion and consequent blood oxygenation after anesthesia. In addition to enhancing respiration, these exercises may help the patient relax. Ambulation will enhance the peripheral circulation and promote optimal lung expansion.
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