An adult patient is scheduled for an upper GI series that will use a barium swallow. What teaching should the nurse include when the patient has completed the test?
A) Stool will be yellow for the first 24 hours postprocedure.
B) The barium may cause diarrhea.
C) Fluids must be increased to facilitate the evacuation of the stool.
D) This series includes analysis of gastric secretions.
Ans: C
Feedback: Postprocedural patient education includes information about increasing fluid intake; evaluating bowel movements for evacuation of barium; and noting increased number of bowel movements, because barium, due to its high osmolarity, may draw fluid into the bowel, thus increasing the intraluminal contents and resulting in greater output.
The barium series does not analyze gastric secretions.
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