The Nurse Identifies the Collaborative Problem of Potential Complication: Hypovolemic

The nurse identifies the collaborative problem of potential complication: hypovolemic shock related to loss of circulatory volume for a patient with bacterial peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. The nurse recognizes that the major loss of circulating fluid volume occurs as a result of

A) prolonged nasogastric (NG) suctioning.
B) increased production of stress hormones.
C) extracellular fluid shift into the peritoneal cavity.
D) loss of purulent drainage into the peritoneal cavity.

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