A patient with diabetes mellitus has just undergone a right,…

A patient with diabetes mellitus has just undergone a right, below-the-knee amputation following gangrene infection. A few days post-op, the patient confides in the nurse that he still feels his right foot. Knowing the pathophysiologic principles behind this, the nurse can

Reviewing pathology for an exam on pulmonary vasculature, th…

Reviewing pathology for an exam on pulmonary vasculature, the nursing student states that blood enters the right side of the heart via the vena cavae, then to the right atrium, right ventricle, and then which vessel carries the deoxygenated blood into the pulmonary system?