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A nurse is caring for a client who has a new diagnosis of bulimia nervosa. Which of the following diagnostic procedures shoul
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Definition:

Bulimia nervosa, is a very serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder. Patients with this disorder will secretly ear excessive quantity of food with out any control on eating habit and then they try to purge to get rid of the extra calories from the body.

Complications:

  • Dehydration, due to vomiting or usage of diuretics, purging etc leading to condition such as  kidney failure
  • Heart problems, may be irregular heartbeat or heart failure

Diagnostics procedures:

Electrocardiogram (ECG) to identify any problem in heart of the patients

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