A patient has a measured serum calcium of 8.7 mg/dL and an albumin of 1.8 g/dL. What is the corrected calcium?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. 10.46 mg/dL
- Step 1: Corrected calcium .
- Step 2: mg/dL.
Answer
10.46 mg/dL.
Why not the others: 8.7 mg/dL: No correction for albumin was made. 6.94 mg/dL: The correction was subtracted instead of added. 10.9 mg/dL: The factor 0.8 was left out.
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