About 10 days following birth, a new mother visits her physician with localized symptoms of redness, swelling, warmth, and a hard inflamed vessel in one leg. The nurse should suspect which of the following conditions?

About 10 days following birth, a new mother visits her physician with localized symptoms of redness, swelling, warmth, and a hard inflamed vessel in one leg. The nurse should suspect which of the following conditions?



a) Subinvolution
b) Femoral thrombophlebitis
c) Mastitis
d) Uterine atony


Answer: b)Femoral thrombophlebitis


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