Laboratory Monitoring: Back to Basics

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  • Brian L. Erstad
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PROLOGUE For a variety of reasons, students often consider themselves unprepared to interpret common laboratory values on clerkship rotations. The preceptor, and usually the student, realizes that a general understanding of common laboratory values is needed to practice in settings where such values are available. There is a tremendous amount of information concerning laboratory monitoring, but the information is often overwhelming and the student seems to lose track of the most common causes of abnormal values. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of laboratory parameters that are routinely ordered in settings where monitoring is performed. The parameters include serum sodium, chloride, potassium, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and creatinine. The intent is not to make the pharmacy student a diagnostician, but rather to enable the student to have a basic understanding of laboratory value interpretation that is important when recommending and monitoring medication regimens.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004