A 47-year-old male client with unresolved hemothorax is febrile, with chills and sweating. He has a nonproductive cough and chest pain. His chest tube drainage is turbid. A possible explanation for these findings is:
a) lobar pneumonia.
b) empyema.
c) Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
d) infected chest tube wound site.
Answer: b) empyema.
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