You are caring for a patient who has just had open heart surgery. He or she has an incision running straight down the thoracic region so that the surgeon could access the heart. What plane did the surgeon cut along?

A) Frontal plane
B) Sagittal plane
C) Transverse plane
D) Coronal plane


Answer: B

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