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Nurs 125 Inflammation Questions and
Answers
What are the signs & symptoms of Inflammation?
Ans: • Heat
• Impaired function
• Pain
• Edema
• Redness (this and warmth occur due to an increase in blood and
dilation of blood vessels that increase vascular permeability)
• Exudate
What does PQRST stand for?
Ans: • position
• quality
• radiation
• severity
• timing
How do you assess PQRST?
Ans: Ask patient questions
Asking patient "where is the pain?" "What provokes the pain?"
"What makes the pain better. Are examples of what?
Ans: Pain Position
Asking patient "what kind of pain do you have? "dull, stabbing,
aching, throbbing, burning, and itching; come on fast or slow?"
Assesses what?
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Ans: Pain Quality
Asking patient "Does pain radiate to somewhere else (i.e.,
gallbladder, liver issues, pancreatitis can radiate to back? Assesses
what?"
Ans: Pain Radiation
"Rate your pain from 0-10". Assesses what?
Ans: Pain Severity
"when does it start and stop, i.e., ac, pc, bending over, what
precipitates and brings it on, sudden or gradually?" Assesses
what?
Ans: Pain timing
What are the different types of exudate?
Ans: Serous: clear with a yellow tinge and straw like appearance (wound
is healing properly and receiving nutrients)
• Sanguineous: blood
• Sera-sanguineous: pink, clear, and bloody component of red blood cells
that are hemolyzed; on a dressing the bloody component will be in the
center and the serous will absorb on the outside and an outline will form
• Purulent: pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor;
infection is present (you would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount,
size i.e., large, thick)
• Fibrinous: fibrinogen that seeps into epithelial level of blood vessels
and combines w/ exudate
What can serious drainage indicate?
Ans: Healing and wound may be receiving nutrients properly.
pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor; infection is
present (you would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount, size
i.e., large, thick)
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Nurs 125 Inflammation Questions and
Answers
What are the signs & symptoms of Inflammation?
Ans: • Heat
• Impaired function
• Pain
• Edema
• Redness (this and warmth occur due to an increase in blood and
dilation of blood vessels that increase vascular permeability)
• Exudate
What does PQRST stand for?
Ans: • position
• quality
• radiation
• severity
• timing
How do you assess PQRST?
Ans: Ask patient questions
Asking patient "where is the pain?" "What provokes the pain?"
"What makes the pain better. Are examples of what?
Ans: Pain Position
Asking patient "what kind of pain do you have? "dull, stabbing,
aching, throbbing, burning, and itching; come on fast or slow?"
Assesses what?
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Ans: Pain Quality
Asking patient "Does pain radiate to somewhere else (i.e.,
gallbladder, liver issues, pancreatitis can radiate to back? Assesses
what?"
Ans: Pain Radiation
"Rate your pain from 0-10". Assesses what?
Ans: Pain Severity
"when does it start and stop, i.e., ac, pc, bending over, what
precipitates and brings it on, sudden or gradually?" Assesses
what?
Ans: Pain timing
What are the different types of exudate?
Ans: Serous: clear with a yellow tinge and straw like appearance (wound
is healing properly and receiving nutrients)
• Sanguineous: blood
• Sera-sanguineous: pink, clear, and bloody component of red blood cells
that are hemolyzed; on a dressing the bloody component will be in the
center and the serous will absorb on the outside and an outline will form
• Purulent: pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor;
infection is present (you would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount,
size i.e., large, thick)
• Fibrinous: fibrinogen that seeps into epithelial level of blood vessels
and combines w/ exudate
What can serious drainage indicate?
Ans: Healing and wound may be receiving nutrients properly.
pus, opaque white, yellow, green, brown, tan, an odor; infection is
present (you would doc the color i.e., milky green, amount, size
i.e., large, thick)
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