What does a high sodium, high hemeglobin and high hematocrit indicate? Why would a patient with...
What does a high sodium, high hemeglobin and high hematocrit indicate? Why would a patient with a small bowel obstruction have these values?
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Small bowel obstruction is referred to as any blockage caused in the small intestine.
The hematocrit level is an indicator of volume state that is dehydration in the patient.
High hemoglobin level are due to increased production of RBC level and simultaneously due to dehydration.
As intraluminal pressure increases the sodium and water absorption decreases but at the luminal level there is increasef in production of sodium and wsyer causing hypernatremia
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