A nurse is alert for the expected fluid shift in the patient who was burned 24 hours earlier. (Place the events in the appropriate sequence. Separate letters by a comma and space as follows: A, B, C, D.)
a. Fluid volume deficit occurs.
b. Blood is shunted from the kidneys to compensate for a loss of fluid volume.
c. Urine output decreases.
d. Generalized edema occurs.
e. Hypoproteinemia causes fluid to move from the bloodstream to extracellular space
E, D, A, B, C
Hypoproteinemia causes a fluid shift from the bloodstream to extracellular space, causing gene-ralized edema; fluid volume deficit occurs; blood is shunted from the kidneys and gastrointestin-al tract to make up for the fluid loss in the circulating volume; and urine output is decreased.
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