The nurse suspects that an acute postoperative infectious process may be developing in your older adult patient. What abnormal finding best supports this suspicion?
a. A thrombocyte count of 40,000/mm3
b. Decreasing erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 10 to 20 mm/hr
c. Increasing C-reactive protein level
d. Increased partial prothrombin time
C
C-reactive protein is a marker present in the acute phase of an inflammatory response. The other lab values do not indicate infection.
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