The nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit receives report from the Labor and Delivery nurse about a full-term neonate and learns the patient’s Apgar scores were 0-0-1-5 at 1, 5, 10, and 15 minutes of life, respectively. How does the nurse interpret this information?

The 20-year-old patient with asthma presents to the emergency department with increased work of breathing and severe wheezing after exposure to household dust and mold. The patient used the albuterol inhaler 6 times in the previous 4 hours with minimal relief. Upon inspection, the nurse notes extensive accessory respiratory muscle use with moderate supraclavicular retractions and nasal flaring. The nurse auscultates expiratory wheezing in all lung fields. The patient is afebrile, normotensive, significantly tachypneic, and mildly tachycardic. The nurse anticipates which findings on a chest x-ray?

The patient is scheduled for a radical orchiectomy for treatment of testicular cancer. Which preprocedural teaching is most important to provide the patient?