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Nurs 125 Inflammation Exam Questions And Answers• Heat
• Loss of function
• Pain
• Swelling
• Redness (this and warmth occur due to an increase in blood and dilation of blood
vessels that increase vascular permeability)
• Exudate - Answer What are the signs & symptoms of Inflammation?
• position
• quality
• radiation
• severity
• timing - Answer What does PQRST stand for?
Ask patient questions - Answer How do you assess PQRST?
Pain Position-Answer Asking patient "where is the pain?" "What provokes the pain?"
"What makes the pain better. Are examples of what?
, Pain Quality- Answer Asking patient "what kind of pain do you have? "dull, stabbing,
aching, throbbing, burning, and itching; come on fast or slow?" Assesses what?
Pain Radiation- Answer Asking patient "Does pain radiate to somewhere else ie,
gallbladder, liver issues, pancreatitis can radiate to back? Assesses what?"
Pain Severity - Answer "Rate your pain from 0-10". Assesses what?
Pain timing - Answer "when does it start and stop, ie ac, pc, bending over, what
precipitates and brings it on, sudden or gradually? Assesses what?
Serous: clear with a yellow tinge and straw like appearance-wound is healing properly
and receiving nutrients
• Sanguineous: blood
• Sera-sanguineous: pink, clear, and bloody component of red blood cells that are
hemolyzed; on a dressing the bloody component will be in the center and the serous will
absorb on the outside and an outline will form
Purulent: pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor; infection is present you
would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount, size i.e., large, thick
Fibrinous: fibrinogen that seeps into epithelial level of blood vessels and combines w/
exudate - Answer What are the different types of exudate?
Healing and wound may be receiving nutrients properly. - Answer What can serious
drainage indicate?
Purple that drainage - Answer pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor;
infection is present (you would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount, size i.e., large,
thick)
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