To Increase Compliance and Reduce Postoperative Complications, the Nurse Should

To increase compliance and reduce postoperative complications, the nurse should include which topics in the preoperative teaching for a patient who is to have a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) ? Select all that apply.

A) Reasons for cooling blankets in postop period
B) Equipment used: IVs, Foley, pacer wires, chest tubes, NG tubes, ECG leads
C) Alternate methods for communicating when intubated
D) Reasons and techniques of turning, coughing, and deep breathing once extubated
E) Drug management: need for sedation when intubated, pain med through PCA