The nurse is providing care for a client receiving emergency care for a condition presenting with the symptoms of a stroke. Which characteristic of the involved clotting pathway does the nurse recognize?
A) The extrinsic pathway is stimulated because of trauma
B) Diagnostic testing will involve both the prothrombin time (PT) and international normalized ratio (INR)
C) Injury has occurred to the endothelial lining of a vessel
D) The intrinsic pathway does not convert fibrinogen to fibrin
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