Prototype Drug Unit 8 & 9- Normal Serum Albumin

Question 1

Therapeutic classification

Answer 1

Fluid replacement agent

Question 2

Pharmacologic classification

Answer 2

Blood product, colloid

Question 3

Therapeutic effects and uses

Answer 3

It is used with people who have lost more than 20% of blood supply or have gone into hypovolemic shock, people with low fluid volume, burns, and respiratory distress.
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Question 4

Mechanism of action

Answer 4

Increase osmotic pressure of the blood and causes fluid to move from the tissues to the general circulation.

Question 5

Adverse effects

Answer 5

Antibodies of the patient may cause an allergic reaction because of incompatibility. (Signs are fever, chills, urticaria(hives), dyspnea, and possibly hypotension). Don’t raise fluid volume too much= hypervolemia

Question 6

Contraindications

Answer 6

Anemia, cardiac failure, or those allergic to albumin
Hypervolemia
Be careful for other cultures that will not take blood products (Jehovah’s Witnesses