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Nurs 125 Inflammation Exam Practice Questions and Answers What are the signs & symptoms of Inflammation? - ANSWER-• Heat • Impaired function • Pain • Edema • Redness (this and warmth occur due to an increase in blood and dilation of blood vessels that increase vascular permeability...

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What are the signs & symptoms of Inflammation? - ANSWER✔✔-• Heat


• Impaired function


• Pain


• Edema


• Redness (this and warmth occur due to an increase in blood and dilation of blood

vessels that increase vascular permeability)


• Exudate


What does PQRST stand for? - ANSWER✔✔-• position


• quality


• radiation


• severity


• timing


How do you assess PQRST? - ANSWER✔✔-Ask patient questions


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,Asking patient "where is the pain?" "What provokes the pain?" "What makes the pain

better. Are examples of what? - ANSWER✔✔-Pain Position


Asking patient "what kind of pain do you have? "dull, stabbing, aching, throbbing,

burning, and itching; come on fast or slow?" Assesses what? - ANSWER✔✔-Pain

Quality


Asking patient "Does pain radiate to somewhere else (i.e., gallbladder, liver issues,

pancreatitis can radiate to back? Assesses what?" - ANSWER✔✔-Pain Radiation


"Rate your pain from 0-10". Assesses what? - ANSWER✔✔-Pain Severity


"when does it start and stop, i.e., ac, pc, bending over, what precipitates and brings it

on, sudden or gradually?" Assesses what? - ANSWER✔✔-Pain timing


What are the different types of exudate? - ANSWER✔✔-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)



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, • Fibrinous: fibrinogen that seeps into epithelial level of blood vessels and combines w/

exudate


What can serious drainage indicate? - ANSWER✔✔-Healing and wound may be

receiving nutrients properly.


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) - ANSWER✔✔-Purple that

drainage


fibrinogen that seeps into epithelial level of blood vessels and combines w/ exudate. -

ANSWER✔✔-Fibrinous


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 - ANSWER✔✔-Sera-sanguineous


Where will the blood be on a sera sanguineous wound dressing? - ANSWER✔✔-on a

dressing the bloody component will be in the center and the serous will absorb on the

outside and an outline will form.


Can there be infection without inflammation? - ANSWER✔✔-Yes, if patient is

immunocompromised.


What are 6 examples of patients who may be immunocompromised? - ANSWER✔✔--

HIV pt.

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