A client with unresolved hemothorax is febrile, with chills and sweating. He has a nonproductive cough and chest pain. His chest tube drainage is turbid. A possible explanation for these findings is:
a) empyema.
b) Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
c) infected chest tube wound site.
d) lobar pneumonia.
Answer: a) empyema.
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