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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
book Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher cover

Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
Exercise 17
The patient's wound is not healing, so the health care provider is going to send the patient home with negative pressure wound therapy or a "wound vac" device.What will the caregiver need to understand about the use of this device?
A) The wound must be cleaned daily.
B) The patient will be placed in a hyperbaric chamber.
C) The occlusive dressing must be sealed tightly to the skin.
D) The diet will not be as important with this sort of treatment.
Explanation
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C. For the negative pressure therapy to ...

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