Question

A client is receiving furosemide to relieve edema the nurse should monitor the client for which response to the medication

Answer 1

Excessive loss of potassium ions

Answer 2

The answer to this question is that the nurse should monitor conditions such as weight loss and excessive loss of potassium ions. An edema is a medical term where in a patient is swelling where in the primary cause of this is having an excess fluids in the body / tissues. This happens because of salt retention.