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What diagnostic test is used TB? {Ans: Sputum culture}When does the preoperative phase begin? {Ans: When the patient decides to have surgery.}The environment should be _______ & _______ for the patient even after receiving Anesthesia. {Ans: Quiet & Therapeutic}What are some medications that can affect surgery? {Ans: Corticosteroids, Diuretics, Phenothiazines, Tranquilizers, Insulin, Antibiotics, Anticoagulants, Anticonvulsant medications, Thyroid hormone, Opioids, OTC's & herbals}What is the most important environmental exposure of COPD? {Ans: Smoking}___________ is a risk for the patient who is not moving well or ambulating or who is not performing deep-breathing and coughing exercises or using an incentive spirometer. {Ans: Atelectasis}What disease has the sign of a barrel chest? {Ans: Emphysema}What disease has a symptom of hyperinflation of the lungs? {Ans: Emphysema}What disease has the sign and symptoms of overweight, peripheral edema, chronic cough, rhonchi & wheezing, cyanotic, & hypoxemia? {Ans: Chronic Bronchitis}When does the intraoperative phase begin? {Ans: It begins when the patient is transferred onto the OR bed and ends with admission to PACU.}What lung sound is High-pitched, musical sound similar to a squeak. Heard more commonly during expiration, but may also be heard during inspiration? It occurs