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You are caring for a patient who has just had open heart surgery. He or she has an incision running straight down the thoracic region so that the
surgeon could
access the heart. What plane did the surgeon cut along?
Frontal plane
Coronal plane
Sagittal plane
Transverse plane

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Final answer:

The surgeon cut along the sagittal plane during the open heart surgery, dividing the body vertically into right and left sides.


Explanation:

The sagittal plane is the plane the surgeon cut along during the open heart surgery you described. It divides the body vertically into right and left sides. In contrast, the frontal (coronal) plane separates the body into front and back portions, while the transverse plane divides the body horizontally into upper and lower portions.


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