In the intensive care unit (ICU), the nurse is caring for a trauma client who has abdominal injuries, is beginning to have a decrease in BP and increased pulse rate, and is pale with diaphoretic skin. The nurse is assessing the client for hemorrhagic shock. If the client is in shock, the nurse would expect to find: significant decrease in urine output due to decrease in renal blood flow. an increase in GFR due to relaxation of the afferent arterioles. excess output of blood-tinged urine. reports of flank pain rotating around the abdominal muscles.
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