The nurse should check if the patient’s urine output has decreased. Acute pancreatitis is a condition wherein the pancreas becomes inflamed. There are times when this would just go away but there are also times when it would be life-threatening. This can sometimes cause renal failure which will decrease the output of urine. The other choices are not related to acute pancreatitis.
For example, A will not be affected whether a patient has pancreatitis or not. C is not going to be connected too as the nurse may have to check if there is an increase in heartbeat. Hypertension does not have any relation to acute pancreatitis too.
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 isnt related to acute pancreatitis.
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