After a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), a Patient Develops a Pseudoaneurysm

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Short Answer

After a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a patient develops a pseudoaneurysm. The nurse would anticipate conservative management if testing proves the pseudoaneurysm to be less than ______ centimeters in diameter as long as the patient is asymptomatic.

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Definitions:

TOT Effect

The "Tip-of-the-Tongue" phenomenon, where a person cannot recall a specific word or term even though it feels just out of reach.

Serial Position Effect

A cognitive phenomenon where an individual tends to remember the first and last items in a series better than the middle items.

Phi Phenomenon

The Phi Phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, foundational in the study of motion perception.

Implicit Memory Effect

The implicit memory effect refers to the influence of previous experiences on performance of a task without conscious recollection of those experiences.