Medication Management

Question 1

What is albumin classified as?

Answer 1

colloid

Question 2

When is albumin administered?

Answer 2

first 24 hours (to keep capillary permeability normal)

Question 3

What is a main function of albumin?

Answer 3

hold fluid in vascular space

Question 4

Albumin will cause vascular volume to go?

Answer 4

up

Question 5

Albumin will cause kidney perfusion to go?

Answer 5

up

Question 6

Albumin will cause bp to go?

Answer 6

up

Question 7

Albumin will cause CO to go?

Answer 7

Up

Question 8

Will albumin help correct FVD?

Answer 8

Yes (more fluid in vascular space)

Question 9

When you start giving a client albumin, the vascular volume will do what?

Answer 9

Increase

Question 10

When giving albumin the workload of the heart will do what?

Answer 10

Increase

Question 11

What is an alert with albumin?

Answer 11

You don’t want to stress the hearts work load too much!

Question 12

Could the client go into FVE with albumin supplementation?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

FVE will cause CO to do what?

Answer 13

decrease

Question 14

FVE can cause lungs to sound what?

Answer 14

wet

Question 15

What os a measurement you could take hourly to ensure that an infusion is not overloading the clients? (think heart)

Answer 15

CVP hourly