A nurse is changing the wound dressing on the coccyx-region pressure ulcer of an immobilized patient. The existing dressing is saturated with both watery, clear discharge and foul, gray-colored liquid
Which of the following entries in the patient's chart best captures this?
A)
"Large amounts of suppurative and serous exudates noted"
B)
"Purulent discharge and fibrinous exudates noted on existing dressing"
C)
"Abscess activity noted to coccyx wound"
D)
"Plasma proteins and membranous exudates present on existing dressing"
Ans:
A
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Serous discharge is clear and low in plasma proteins, while suppurative, or purulent, exudates are a mass of degraded cells. An abscess would be physically contained with no discharge, and the exudate is neither fibrinous nor membranous.
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