Question

A nurse is assessing a patient who has an electrolyte imbalance related to renal failure. For which potential complications of this electrolyte imbalance

Answer 1

The renal failure is also called as kidney failure where the condition in which the kidney is unable to remove the waste and balance or excess fluids from the blood.Here the kidney is not able to filter the waste products from the body fluids.

The most common complication of renal failure is electrolyte imbalance that results from inabilility of the kidney in the filtering of excess electrolytes from the blood.Due to the failure in the function of kidnneys results in hypervolemia,hyperkalemia,hyperphosphatemia,hypocalcemia and bicarbonate deficiency.The bicarbonate deficiency will results in metabolic acidosis.

In renal failure there is a retaining of sodium but most of the patients are suffered with hyponatremia because of dilution of sodium occured from fluid retention.The net effects of the this electrolyte imbalance results potential complications such as skeletal muscle weakness,paralytic ileus and ECG changes.

The chronic kidney disease (CKD) can results the damaging of kidneys and the end result is kidney failure that results in the persistent losess of muscle proteins.These substantial protein loss results in skeletal muscle weakness

In case of electrolyte imbalance results from renal failure mainly exhibit the increased pottasium levels due to reduced renal excretion results in tempororary obstruction of the intestine.Due to the increased levels of pottasium that results in the the tempororary arrest of intestinal peristalsis.The increased levels of pottasium resuts in intestinal muscle weakness and arrest of intestinal peristalsis

In case of renal failure there is a imbalance in the pottasium,calcium and magnesium the electrolytes that helps in the maintanance of action potential of the heart may be altered results in serious arrhythmias that can leads to the changes in ECG