The nurse is explaining wound healing to a patient.Which of the following statements explains the healing that occurs during the inflammatory stage of wound healing in a full-thickness wound?

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Vasodilatation occurs,allowing plasma and blood cells to leak into the wound,noted as edema,erythema,and exudate.Leukocytes (white blood cells)arrive in the wound to begin wound cleanup.Macrophages,a type of white blood cell,appear and begin to regulate wound repair.The result of the inflammatory phase is a clean wound bed in the patient with an uncomplicated wound.It is during the proliferative stage,not the inflammatory stage,that contraction causes a reduction in the size of the wound,duplication of epithelial cells occurs,and collagen is synthesized.

The Nurse Is Explaining Wound Healing to a Patient