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Medical-Surgical Nursing · Chapter 3

Cleared to Roll

Two things stop a case at the holding-bay door more often than anything else: a stomach that is not empty and a signature that is not valid. Set what the patient swallowed and when, and the fasting clock returns the earliest safe induction time. Then switch to the consent check and toggle the circumstances of a signature until you can say, out loud, exactly what the nurse does about it.

What was the last thing that went down?

Clock
Anything here makes the clock irrelevant

The verdict

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