The Nursing Instructor Is Talking with Senior Nursing Students About

question 19

Multiple Choice

The nursing instructor is talking with senior nursing students about diagnostic procedures used in respiratory diseases. The instructor discusses thoracentesis, defining it as a procedure performed for diagnostic purposes or to aspirate accumulated excess fluid or air from the pleural space. What would the instructor tell the students purulent fluid indicates?

• A) Cancer
• B) Infection
• C) Inflammation
• D) Heart failure

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