A 60-year-old with a history of cirrhosis presents with dyspnea, impaired ventilation, and pleural pain. A diagnosis of pleural effusion is made, and a watery fluid is drained. When giving report, the nurse will refer to this fluid as:
a. exudative.
b. purulent.
c. infected.
d. transudative.
ANS: D
Pleural effusions that enter the pleural space from intact blood vessels can be transudative (wa-tery). The fluid is watery; thus, it is not exudative, which is composed of white cells. Effusion is not purulent or infected.
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