You are covering patients for a nurse who is at dinner. One of those patients had a cervical diskectomy earlier today. The patient calls you to her room and tells you she is having severe pain and that it came on suddenly. What would you do?
A) Call for an entubation tray
B) Take the bandage off
C) Call the surgeon
D) Increase their pain medicine
Ans: C
Feedback: If the patient experiences a sudden increase in pain, extrusion of the graft may have occurred, requiring reoperation. A sudden increase in pain should be promptly reported to the surgeon. You would not call for an entubation tray; if the procedure was an anterior cervical diskectomy the entubation tray should already be in the room. Taking the bandage off is only done at the surgeon's order, as is increasing the pain medicine.
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