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A baseball player was hit in the head with a bat during practice. In the emergency department, the physician tells the family that he has a "coup" injury. How will the nurse explain this to the ... family so they can understand? A)"It's like squeezing an orange so tight that the juice runs out of the top." B)"Your son has a huge laceration inside his brain where the bat hit his skull." C)"Your son has a contusion of the brain at the site where the bat hit his head." D)"When the bat hit his head, his neck jerked backward causing injury to the spine." A male newborn infant has been diagnosed with spina bifida occulta. Which of the following pathophysiological processes has most likely contributed to the infant's health problem? A)The neural groove failed to fuse and completely close across the top of the neural plate. B)The infant's spinal cord and meninges protrude through his skin. C)The child's central and peripheral nervous systems have insufficiently differentiated during embryonic development. D)The infant's soma and viscera are underdeveloped. A patient in the intensive care unit who has a brain tumor has experienced a sharp decline. The care team suspects that water and protein have crossed the blood-brain barrier and been transferred from the vascular space into the client's interstitial space. Which of the following diagnoses best captures this pathophysiology? A)Focal hypoxia B)Cytotoxic edema [Show More]

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