While teaching a patient about the signs of IV therapy–associated phlebitis, the nurse reminds the patient that the area will be:
a. warm, edematous, and red.
b. painful and cyanotic.
c. painless and numb.
d. edematous and cool.
A
Areas of phlebitis are warm, edematous, and red.
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