The stir-up regimen consists of
a. deep breathing exercises, suctioning, warming, and nausea management.
b. incentive spirometry, abdominal breathing, warming, drinking, and pain management.
c. incentive spirometry, coughing, suctioning, warming, mobilization, and eating.
d. deep breathing exercises, coughing, positioning, mobilization, and pain management.
D
The basics of the regimen are aimed at the prevention of complications, primarily atelectasis, and venous stasis. Five major activities—deep-breathing exercises, coughing, positioning, mobilization, and pain management—constitute the stir-up regimen.
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