Medical-surgical unit · Post-operative day 1 · 22:00 · Hour 0

Post-operative Wound Infection to Sepsis

The client reports incisional pain increasing from 3 to 7 out of 10 since the afternoon. There is new blanching erythema extending 3 cm beyond the suture line with scant cloudy drainage. He is alert but says he feels 'wrung out.'

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