While planning care for a patient from general anesthesia, which principle should the nurse re-member? A side effect of some general anesthetic agents is _____ diabetes insipidus
a. neurogenic
b. nephrogenic
c. psychogenic
d. allogenic
ANS: B
General anesthetics can lead to nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (DI). General anesthetics are not associated with any of the other forms of DI.
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