The nurse is caring for a patient who has just been given medication to reverse neuromuscular blocking agents. The nurse is aware that the patient is in which general anesthetic stage?
a. Induction
b. Introduction
c. Emergence
d. Maintenance
C
Emergence is the stage of surgery in which surgery is completed and the patient is prepared to return to consciousness, and neuromuscular blocking agents are reversed.
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