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following an explosion at a chemical plant, a nurse is triaging clients. one client has a penetrating abdominal wound from a piece of shrapnel. what color coordinate would the nurse assign to this client?

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The nurse would assign to this client yellow color coordinate.

Toxicity is the ability of an agent to cause bodily harm. The time between absorption and the appearance of symptoms is referred to as latency. The nurse notices a victim with a green triage tag during a disaster.

Both systems use the following triage categories: Red (immediate evaluation by physician), Orange (emergent, evaluation within 15 minutes), Yellow (potentially unstable, evaluation within 60 minutes), Green (non-urgent, re-evaluation every 180 minutes), and Blue (minor injuries or complaints, re-evaluation every 240 min).

Severe subcutaneous haemorrhage, abdominal wall laceration, intra-abdominal haemorrhage, liver rupture, diaphragm rupture, perirenal haemorrhage, and stomach and intestine puncture wounds are all examples of abdominal injuries.

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