A patient emerges from general anesthesia screaming, shouting, and thrashing wildly. The nurse identifies this reaction as
a. emergence hallucination. c. emergence hyperactivity.
b. normal. d. emergence delirium.
D
Some patients emerge from anesthesia in a state of excitement, a condition characterized by restlessness, disorientation, crying, moaning, or irrational talking. In the extreme form of excitement, which is referred to as emergence delirium, the patient screams, shouts, and thrashes about wildly.
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