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bobypop

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on: Jul 11, 2018
You are doing an admission assessment on an elderly patient newly admitted for end-stage liver disease. You must assess the patient's skin turgor. What should you remember when evaluating skin turgor?
 
  A) Overhydration causes the skin to tent.
  B) Dehydration causes the skin to appear edematous and spongy.
  C) Inelastic skin turgor is a normal part of aging.
  D) Normal skin turgor is moist and boggy.

Question 2

A patient is on postoperative day 4 after undergoing a total hip replacement. He is diagnosed as having a pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism may occur as a postoperative complication of
 
  a. arterial thrombosis.
  b. venous thrombosis.
  c. shallow, ineffective respirations.
  d. rapid infusion of intravenous fluids.


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ndhahbi

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B
Venous status, venous wall injury, and increased coagulability of blood cause the formation of a venous thrombosis. The thrombus (usually in the deep veins of the lower extremities) dislodges and travels through the venous circulation; it passes through the right side of the heart and enters the pulmonary artery, where it becomes lodged.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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