During report, a nurse learns that a new patient received lavage during the previous shift. The nurse correctly understands this to mean
1. Washing of the entire body with tepid water to reduce a dangerously high fever.
2. Encouraging the patient to sip ice water every minute or two to feel more comfortable during a fever.
3. Immersion in a whirlpool bath to débride the skin around a wound.
4. Irrigation of the stomach or colon with cold water to reduce a very high fever that did not respond to other treatment.
ANS: 4
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