When evaluating a male client for complications of acute pancreatitis, the nurse would observe for:
a- increased intracranial pressure.
b- decreased urine output.
c- bradycardia.
d- hypertension.
Answer B.
Acute pancreatitis can cause decreased urine output, which results from the renal failure that sometimes accompanies this condition.
Intracranial pressure neither increases nor decreases in a client with pancreatitis.
Tachycardia, not bradycardia, usually is associated with pulmonary or hypovolemic complications of pancreatitis.
Hypotension can be caused by a hypovolemic complication, but hypertension usually isn’t related to acute pancreatitis.
a- increased intracranial pressure.
b- decreased urine output.
c- bradycardia.
d- hypertension.
Answer B.
Acute pancreatitis can cause decreased urine output, which results from the renal failure that sometimes accompanies this condition.
Intracranial pressure neither increases nor decreases in a client with pancreatitis.
Tachycardia, not bradycardia, usually is associated with pulmonary or hypovolemic complications of pancreatitis.
Hypotension can be caused by a hypovolemic complication, but hypertension usually isn’t related to acute pancreatitis.
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