The Nurse Suspects That an Acute Postoperative Infectious Process May

The nurse suspects that an acute postoperative infectious process may be developing in your older adult client.What abnormal finding best supports this suspicion?

A) a thrombocyte count of 40,000/mm³.
B) decreasing erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 10 to 20 mm/hr.
C) increasing C-reactive protein level.
D) increased partial prothrombin time.

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