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To prevent dehydration or over-hydration
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What is the Important of intake and output measurement?
to ensure that there are no obstruction within the digestive/urinary tract.
Which is more important fluid intake or fluid output?
your fluid intake should be 1/4 more than your fluid out put
What is the medical term meaning output exceeds intake?
Diuresis is the medical term meaning liquid output exceeds intake.
What factors affect urine output?
There are many things that affect an animal's urine output such as food intake. Beverage intake also affects an animal's urine output.
Why monitor intake and output with a patient with cholelithiasis?
A person with cholelithiasis will need to be monitored to ensure they are not having further problems. Documenting intake and output is one such monitor.
What is intake and output in Nursing or Medicine?
Intake is the amount of fluids someone takes in and output is how much urine they excreted. It's used to monitor fluid balance.
Why do you use fluid balance charts?
A "fluid balance" chart is also known as an "I/O" chart for intake and output. An I/O is the record a nurse or nursing staff writes, giving the intake and output of fluids in ml/cc's. The I/O includes what is taken in through IVs, gastric lavages, catheter flushes, as well as orally or rectally (such as during an enema). "Return" after an enema, amounts from drainage or returns from flushes, and urinary output create the totals for "output".
What are the outputs of Excel?
The results of formulas that you type in are outputs in Excel. If you do filters, the results you get are outputs. Charts are an output. If you print anything from Excel, that is an output.
What happens if urine output is greater than intake?
If urine output is greater than intake a pressure differential will exist between inside and outside the urethra and as a result you will urinate your internal organs out.
Does weight gain occur when intake of food and output of energy are the same?
no
Is weight control as simple as balancing energy intake to output?
False
Purpose of monitoring of intake and output?
Determines patients current volume
