MED SURGE CH 33

The term _____________ means dry mouth

xerostomia

The nurse is providing preoperative care for a client with gastric cancer who is having a resection. What is the nursing management priority for this client?

Correcting nutritional deficits

A client has received a diagnosis of gastric cancer and is awaiting a surgical date. During the preoperative period, the client should adopt what dietary guidelines?

Eat small, frequent meals with high calorie and vitamin content.

_____________________ is a condition that means "raw corners of the mouth" it is common in older adults usually from infection, deficiency of vitamin b12, or damaged dentures

angular cheilosis

Which ulcer is associated with extensive burn injury?

curling ulcer

A nurse is caring for a client who underwent a subtotal gastrectomy. To manage dumping syndrome, the nurse should advise the client to:

drink liquids only between meals.

A nursing student has auscultated a client's abdomen and noted two bowel sounds in a 1-minute period of time. How would you tell the student to document the client's bowel sounds?

hypoactive

Swallowing is a voluntary act that is regulated by a swallowing center in the ___________________ of the central nervous system and specially requires innervations of CN V and CNVII

medulla oblongata

Elderly, acutely ill, or debilitated people with decreased salivary flow from general dehydration or medications are at high risk for ______________

parotitis

Gastrostomy is preferred over NG feedings in the patient who is comatose because ___________________________, making regurgitation and aspiration less likely.

the gastroesophageal sphincter remains intact