Furosemide

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What lab values should you beware of prior to some starting on Furosemide for the first time?

What are the most important things to know about your patient prior to Lasix use?

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Sounds like a homework question to me. Current BP/HR, Bun/Creatinine, as well as Potassium levels. Now you tell me why.

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Shouldn't this be in the nursing student section?

OP, how does Lasix work on the kidneys? How will that affect it's function?

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Specializes in ICU.

@brown rice .. Read ur book please :)

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Don't you just love it....

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

I try to "beware" of all the lab values.

Sent from my iPhone.

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If you're in med surg and don't know the basics to this question, I wonder how you could pass NCLEX like the rest of us have.

Seriously, I think this belongs in the nursing student section.

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Specializes in GI Surgery Step-down.

Potassium most important you need to watch.. Oh and BP def!

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Can we be nice about this and just help OP out? Yes, it could be in the nursing student thread, but I think it's worse that you guys are mean about the fact that OP asked the question.

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Specializes in Med Surg.
Can we be nice about this and just help OP out? Yes, it could be in the nursing student thread, but I think it's worse that you guys are mean about the fact that OP asked the question.

How is it mean? A quick look in a drug guide will give the information the OP requested. We're not here to do homework for others.

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Yes, I agree with you that the OP could have looked it up in a drug guide or the internet, however, my point is that if there is nothing good or helpful to say about it, it should have been better for us not to comment on it at all. Some comments on here are very condescending and I just thought that there is no need for that. I have been through this kind of behaviors at work and I just wish that we all can work together, even online as professionals.

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So I have to be "professional" and not express my opinion on the safety issues of a nurse who doesn't understand or care to investigate the actions of a very common drug.

But it is *not* unprofessional to put no effort into educating one's self of a potentially lethal medication?

I learn something new every day.

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