When evaluating a male client for complications of acute pancreatitis, the nurse would observe for:
A. increased intracranial pressure
B. decreased urine output
C. bradycardia
D. hypertension
Answer: B
Explanation: Acute pancreatitis can cause decreased urine output, which results from the renal failure that sometimes accompanies this condition. Intracranial pressure neither increases nor decreases in a client with pancreatitis. Tachycardia, not bradycardia, usually is associated with pulmonary or hypovolemic complications of pancreatitis. Hypotension can be caused by a hypovolemic complication, but hypertension usually isn't related to acute pancreatitis.
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