A client comes to the facility complaining of acute pain. When assessing the client, the nurse understands that unrelieved acute pain can result in which physiologic responses? Select all that apply
A) Decreased secretion of antidiuretic hormone
B) Gluconeogenesis
C) Protein anabolism
D) Increased secretion of cortisol
E) Decreased peripheral vascular resistance
Ans: B, D
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Physiologic responses to unrelieved acute pain include increased secretion of antidiuretic hormone, gluconeogenesis, protein catabolism, increased secretion of cortisol, and increased peripheral vascular resistance.
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