Nurses should be alert for increased fluid requirements in which circumstance?
a. Fever
b. Mechanical ventilation
c. Congestive heart failure
d. Increased intracranial pressure
ANS: A
Fever leads to great insensible fluid loss in young children because of increased body surface area relative to fluid volume. The mechanically ventilated child has decreased fluid requirements. Congestive heart failure is a case of fluid overload in children. Increased intracranial pressure does not lead to increased fluid requirements in children.
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