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Your clients lab values are sodium 166 mEq/L, potassium 5.0 mEq/L, chloride 115 mEq/L, and bicarbonate 35 mEq/L. What condition is this client likely to have, judging by anion gap?
Mental Disorder
Any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously impairs the person’s ability to work or get along with others, or makes a person unable to control the impulse to endanger others.
Self-Destructive
Engaging in behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful to oneself.
Endangers Others
Actions or behaviors that pose a risk or threat to the safety or well-being of other people.
Emotional State
A complex experience of consciousness, bodily sensation, and behavior that reflects the personal significance of a particular event, situation, or set of circumstances.
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