Question

The nurse is caring for a hospitalized client who is experiencing anxiety-related hyperventilation. To account for the client's hyperventilation, when recording the client's fluid intake and output, the nurse should adjust the amount of fluid lost through which route?

1) Insensible loss
2) Feces
3) Sweat
4) Urine

Answer 1

2) the feces of the dectrose

Answer 2

To account for hyperventilation, the nurse should adjust for fluid loss through insensible loss, which refers to water loss through evaporation from the lungs and skin surface.

Step-by-step explanation:

To account for the client's hyperventilation, the nurse should adjust the amount of fluid lost through insensible loss when recording the client's fluid intake and output.

Water loss from the body occurs predominantly through the renal system, with urine production accounting for the largest amount of water leaving the body. However, in cases of hyperventilation, excessive loss of water through respiration, known as insensible loss, also needs to be considered.

Insensible loss refers to water loss through evaporation from the lungs and skin surface without sweating or overt perspiration.