H.K. asks you about the isolation precautions. Does this mean I ...

[newyorker26]

H.K. asks you about the isolation precautions. Does this mean I have something bad? What
  is your best answer?
 
  a. These are precautions that we use for every patient who has surgery.
  b. These precautions prevent the spread of the infection to other patients and to health care
  personnel.
  c. These are precautions we are taking to help your infection get better.
  d. This is an extremely serious infection; these precautions will keep the infection from
  getting worse.

Question 2

For each characteristic listed in the following, note whether it is a characteristic of a fat
  embolus (F), a blood clot embolus (BC) in the lungs, or both (B).
 
  a. Altered mental status
  b. Decreased Spo2
  c. Petechiae
  d. Chest pain
  e. Crackles
  f. Increased respirations and pulse

[scikid]

Answer to Question 1

b
Contact precautions are implemented to prevent the spread of the causative organism to other
patients and to health care workers. They do not affect the patient's infection either by helping it get
better or by preventing it from getting worse, and they are not used on every patient who has surgery.

Answer to Question 2

a, b, d, e, f: both (B); c: fat embolus (F)
Symptoms of fat embolism and blood clot embolism in the lungs are essentially the same, except
petechiae are characteristic of fat embolism only.

[newyorker26]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[shailee]

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