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Albumin Lab Values

Albumin Lab Values

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Jon Haws
BS, BSN,RN,CCRN Alumnus
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Overview

  1. Albumin
    1. Normal Value Range
    2. Pathophysiology
    3. Special Considerations
    4. Too High: Causes, Symptoms, Treatments
    5. Too Low: Causes, Symptoms, Treatments

Nursing Points

General

  1. Normal value range
    1. 3.5 – 6.0 g/dL
  2. Pathophysiology
    1. Produced in the liver
    2. Main protein of plasma
    3. Responsible for maintaining oncotic pressure
      1. Draws fluid into blood vessel
      2. “Protein pulls”
      3. Refer to Fluid & Electrolytes lesson  01.02 Fluid Pressures
    4. Transport protein
    5. Serves as amino acid
    6. Nutrition
      1. Poor indicator of nutrition
        1. Due to long half-life
      2. Pre-Albumin
        1. Better indicator of nutrition
  3. Special considerations
    1. Green top typically
    2. Usually sent with several other labs
      1. Chemistries
      2. Liver function tests
      3. Nutritional labs
  4. Elevated Albumin levels
    1. Dehydration
    2. Excess infusion of albumin
  5. Decreased albumin levels
    1. Liver disease
    2. Fluid loss
      1. Fistula
      2. Hemorrhage
      3. Kidney Disease
      4. Burns
    3. Congestive heart failure
    4. Long term poor nutrition
      1. Inadequate intake
    5. Inflammation

Assessment

  1. Assess patient’s pre-albumin for nutritional status or indications of acute illness

Nursing Concepts

  1. Lab Values
  2. Nutrition

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Lab Values

The Lab Values Course will help you understand how to interpret some of the most common and most important laboratory values you might see in your patients. We’ll break them down by body system and help you understand how the numbers you see in the chart relate to what’s actually happening to your patient. We’ll even walk you through how to draw blood in the right order and how to easily document lab values on your patient.

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Lab Values Course Introduction
Lab Values Course Introduction
Lab Basics
Lab Panels
Order of Lab Draws
Shorthand Lab Values
Cardiovascular Labs
Troponin I (cTNL) Lab Values
Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) Lab Values
Cardiac (Heart) Enzymes
Hematology Labs
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Lab Values
Hemoglobin (Hbg) Lab Values
Hematocrit (Hct) Lab Values
White Blood Cell (WBC) Lab Values
Platelets (PLT) Lab Values
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Cultures
Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (CCP) Lab Values
Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) Lab Values
Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) Lab Values
Total Iron Binding Capacity (TIBC) Lab Values
Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) Lab Values
Absolute Reticulocyte Count (ARC) Lab Values
Carboxyhemoglobin Lab Values
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Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV) Lab Values
D-Dimer (DDI) Lab Values
Iron (Fe) Lab Values
Fibrin Degradation Products (FDP) Lab Values
Fibrinogen Lab Values
GI and Hepatic Labs
Albumin Lab Values
Cholesterol (Chol) Lab Values
Ammonia (NH3) Lab Values
Total Bilirubin (T. Billi) Lab Values
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Gamma Glutamyl Transferase (GGT) Lab Values
Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) Lab Values
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALK PHOS) Lab Values
Lipase Lab Values
Prealbumin (PAB) Lab Values
Protein (PROT) Lab Values
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Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) Lab Values
Creatinine (Cr) Lab Values
Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
Urinalysis (UA)
Protein in Urine Lab Values
Creatinine Clearance Lab Values
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Glucose Lab Values
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1C)
Anion Gap
Free T4 (Thyroxine) Lab Values
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