A 72-year-old patient is in a long-term care facility after having had a cerebrovascular accident. The patient is noncommunicative, enteral feedings are not being absorbed, and respirations are becoming laboured
Which of the stages of the general adaptation syndrome is the patient experiencing? a. Resistance stage
b. Exhaustion stage
c. Reflex pain response
d. Alarm reaction
B
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A During the resistance or adaptation stage, the body stabilizes.
B The exhaustion stage occurs when the body can no longer resist the effects of the stressor and when the energy necessary to maintain adaptation is depleted.
C Reflex pain response is not a stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
D During the alarm reaction, increasing hormone levels result in increased blood volume, epinephrine and norepinephrine amounts, heart rate, blood flow to muscles, oxygen intake, and mental alertness.
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