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9 years ago
The nurse caring for a patient with crushing injuries from an auto accident is horrified to find the patient bleeding profusely from the nose, mouth, and rectum, as well as from the injuries. The nurse assesses this emergency situation as:
1.   hemophilia.
2.   disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
3.   leukemia.
4.   thrombocytopenia.


This is for my medical nursing class
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9 years ago
Number 2. When the body is injured, proteins help to form clots in the blood that travel to the site of injury. Over time, and with such severe injuries, the proteins can become "used up", which poses a huge bleeding risk. Number 1 is not right because it is a genetic factor, look at the key words. Car accidents, crushing, they're not looking for an answer about genetics. 3 doesn't make sense, and 4 could happen, but probably not until advanced stages of DIC.
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9 years ago
Thank you for this, it helped me understand it perfectly.
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