Question

A patient is one day postoperative after having a hernia repair. during the morning assessment, the nurse notes that the patient has incisional pain, a 99.2° f temperature, slight redness at the incision margins, and 20 ml of serosanguineous drainage in the jackson-pratt drain. based on these assessment data, what conclusion would the nurse make?

Answer 1

This sounds like possible surgical wound dehiscence and infection.

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