A client is admitted to a local health care facility for minor surgery to be performed with regional anesthesia. The nurse knows that regional anesthesia would be injected around which of the following regions in the body?
A) The veins
B) The arteries
C) The nerves
D) The capillaries
Ans: C
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Regional anesthesia involves injection around the client's nerves. Doing so prevents these nerves from sending pain signals to the brain. Regional anesthesia is never injected into the veins, arteries, or capillaries.
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