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What Causes Breathlessness And Sore Toe While Having Acute Renal Failure?
im a nursing student, have a made up case study from lecturers about a 62yr old male who has just been admitted to the ward with acute renal failure. RR28, experiencing difficultly in breathing and has a sore toe of 4/10 on pain scale. why does he have a sore toe? is that related at all to AFR? thanks :)
Thu, 28 Jul 2016
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No, the sore toe wouldn't be related to the ARF.
The toe problem could be gout and he needs a check to see if his serum uric acid level is elevated.
Otherwise, it could be a stress fracture in the toe, so I would get x-rays to check for that
No, the sore toe wouldn't be related to the ARF.
The toe problem could be gout and he needs a check to see if his serum uric acid level is elevated.
Otherwise, it could be a stress fracture in the toe, so I would get x-rays to check for that
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