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The Nurse Suspects That an Acute Postoperative Infectious Process May

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The nurse suspects that an acute postoperative infectious process may be developing in your older adult client.What abnormal finding best supports this suspicion?


A) a thrombocyte count of 40,000/mm3.
B) decreasing erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 10 to 20 mm/hr.
C) increasing C-reactive protein level.
D) increased partial prothrombin time.

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