Nurses should be alert for increased fluid requirements in which circumstance?
A) Fever
B) Mechanical ventilation
C) Congestive heart failure
D) Increased intracranial pressure

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Fever leads to great insensible fluid loss in young children because of increased body surface area relative to fluid volume.The mechanically ventilated child has decreased fluid requirements.Congestive heart failure is a case of fluid overload in children.Increased intracranial pressure does not lead to increased fluid requirements in children.

Nurses Should Be Alert for Increased Fluid Requirements in Which