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Question
Fluid and Electrolytes/Venous access
1. What are the normal ranges of magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium?
2. What are signs and symptoms of low magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium?
3. What are signs and symptoms of high magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium?
4. What are Chvostek and Trousseau sign? What is this indicative of?
5. What signs and symptoms would you have in a patient with fluid overload (hypervolemia)? What about fluid volume deficit (hypovolemia)?
6. What teaching would you give the patient who has low/high magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium?
7. What teaching would you give the patient who has fluid overload?
8. What teaching would you give the patient who has fluid volume deficit?
9. What medications help with low magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium? What medications would help with high magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium?
10. What interventions would you implement with the patient who has low magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium? What if they have high magnesium, calcium, potassium or sodium?
11. What is furosemide (Lasix)? What does this do to electrolytes? We talked about this in class.
12. What is a PICC line? What do you do to care for this? How would you remove?