A patient has a measured serum calcium of 7.2 mg/dL and an albumin of 1.8 g/dL. What is the corrected calcium?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 8.96 mg/dL
- Step 1: Corrected calcium .
- Step 2: mg/dL.
Answer
8.96 mg/dL.
Why not the others: 7.2 mg/dL: No correction for albumin was made. 5.44 mg/dL: The correction was subtracted instead of added. 9.4 mg/dL: The factor 0.8 was left out.
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