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I am looking for the rationale of abnormal (high & low) values for potasium, chlorride, calcium glucose ,BUN, creatinine, , RBC, WBC,hemoglobin, hematocrit, platelet count,, peripheral blood smear, MCV, MCH, MCHC, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils, .. I would also like to know the nursing implications for each.

 

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June 1 12:48 AM (2 hours and 39 minutes and 47 seconds later)
         
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Rationale: Take lots of "normal" people (we use medical, dental, and nursing students) and analyze the blood samples. The mean ±2 standard deviations is considered to be the expected range.

I'm including links that should answer any questions you have. There are books in medical-nursing libraries that will provide extensive detail about clinical implcations.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Detection/laboratory-tests.

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/testtips/commontests.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/laboratorytests.html

Don't stay up all night. When is the paper due? (If you're not a student, forgive my levity. We get a lot of late night requests for last-minute help.)

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June 1 8:37 AM (7 hours and 48 minutes and 13 seconds later)
         
Reply to Teaching Doc's Post: I am a nursing student..I am looking for answers such as ex: For sodium the range is 135-145mmol/L
High values may indicate: disturbances of extracellular fluid, disturbances of water balance and etc.
Nursing implication: to monitor I & O's, risk for seizures, & neurologic sx.

Can you find for me or post these types of high & llow values for the ones I previously listed. Thank you.
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