A woman who has given birth 12 hours ago is displaying signs and symptoms of disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic). the client's husband is confused as to why a disease of excessive coagulation can result in bleeding. which of the nurse's explanations best characterizes dic?

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Corinne Sanders

6 October, 14:29

A woman who has given birth 12 hours ago is displaying signs and symptoms of disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic). the client's husband is confused as to why a disease of excessive coagulation can result in bleeding. which of the nurse's explanations best characterizes dic?

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Taylor Lamb · Answer 1

The answer is "So much clotting takes place that there are no available clotting components left and bleeding ensues."

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic) it begins with excessive clotting which happens due to some infection which could have been caused by some external agent in blood or due to complication during birth this causes the body to exhaust its clotting agent at one place while bleeding happens