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A semiconscious woman is brought to the emergency department after she was found on the floor in her kitchen. Her face, nail beds, lips, and oral mucosa are a bright cherry-red color. The nurse suspects that this coloring is due to:
 
  a. Polycythemia.
  b. Carbon monoxide poisoning.
  c. Carotenemia. d.
  Uremia.

Question 2

The nurse is assessing for clubbing of the fingernails and expects to find:
 
  a. Nail bases that are firm and slightly tender.
  b. Curved nails with a convex profile and ridges across the nails.
  c. Nail bases that feel spongy with an angle of the nail base of 150 degrees.
  d. Nail bases with an angle of 180 degrees or greater and nail bases that feel spongy.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
A bright cherry-red coloring in the face, upper torso, nail beds, lips, and oral mucosa appears in cases of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
The normal nail is firm at its base and has an angle of 160 degrees. In clubbing, the angle straightens to 180 degrees or greater and the nail base feels spongy.


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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