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Hyponatremia and NG tubes to suctionRating: (votes: 0) What are your ideas? Think about fluid and electrolytes. Comment:
I know that water follows sodium so I was thinking that since the NG tube is pulling fluid out of the stomach to decompress it then the sodium is following it and that would lead to hyponatremia.
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What about the sodium blank blank?
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Remember that there is always electrolytes imbalance in suctioning coz ur removing all gastric content
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Thank you. I appreciate it.
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Sodium is in the gastric contents so removing it by NG tube via suction would cause the sodium levels to decrease.
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and yet our NG tube pts have more of a focus on K+ They are usually on D5 1/NS with either 20/40 K
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Gastric contents actually contain very little k. It is the hypovolemia from suction that causes hypokalemia.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, appreciate it.
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