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Preoperative Education For Cardiac Surgical Patients Benchmark Study, Jackson W. Payne
Preoperative Education For Cardiac Surgical Patients Benchmark Study, Jackson W. Payne
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Heart surgery is a term that scares a lot of people and rightfully so, as the heart is one of, if not the, most vital organ in the human body. So naturally, one can imagine the amount of fear and anxiety that patients feel when they are told they need heart surgery. This fear and anxiety is not unwarranted, either. Heart surgery, in most cases, is a major and highly complex operation with a lot of potential complications and negatives. Despite this, the majority of the time the benefits do outweigh the risks and patients elect to go forward with …