Why did J.P. have a cardiac biopsy?
What will be an ideal response?
Because patients are often asymptomatic while they are on immunosuppressive drugs, rejection
must be diagnosed by endocardial biopsy. Biopsies are performed weekly for the first 3 to 6 weeks
after surgery, then every 3 months for the first year, then yearly.
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a. Colon b. Lung c. Pancreas d. Prostate
During the course of practice, the nurse must be aware of the health of an individual, family, group, population, or community, also known as their:
a. health status. c. health needs. b. quality of life. d. health assets.
The nurse is researching a drug recently released on the market to determine what the median lethal dose (LD50) was in preclinical trials. The nurse recognizes that this number reflects which fact?
1. The dose at which 50% of the research animals died 2. A measurement of the potency of the drug 3. The value of relative safety of the drug 4. The dose that produced signs of toxicity in 50% of lab animals