Question

A client with diabetes who is diagnosed with a gangrenous right heel ulcer presents with a wound that has no line of demarcation, is spreading rapidly, and has a foul odor. The health care worker recognizes these manifestations as:

Answer 1

The correct answer is - moist gangrene.

Explanation:

Moist gangrene is the condition that occurs when a particular organ or region is suddenly cut off from the blood supply due to various conditions like blood clots or severe burn or injury. Such region tissue or part of the start leaking the fluids due and bacteria grow in these leaked area. The foul smell is the characteristic of moist gangrene due to the bacterial fluid.

Thus, the correct answer is - moist gangrene