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NCLEX RN Practice Question

A client is undergoing abdominal surgery under general anesthesia. Within the first 30 minutes after induction, the anesthesiologist notes a rapid drop in the client's core temperature. Which physiological effect of general anesthesia most directly explains this early fall in core temperature?

  • Peripheral vasoconstriction that shunts cold blood toward the central circulation.

  • Activation of shivering that increases evaporative heat loss.

  • A decreased metabolic rate that lowers endogenous heat production.

  • Peripheral vasodilation that redistributes warm core blood to cooler peripheral tissues.

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