NCLEX RN Practice Question # 942
NCLEX Examination.
Practice Question # 942.
nclex examination.
Clinical Significance Serum calcium:
The importance of normal serum calcium concentration can best be appreciated by a review of the clinical manifestations of hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia. The former most often leads to tetany, convulsive seizures, and cardiovascular, psychiatric, and a variety of ectodermal effects.
Hypercalcemia is usually associated with soft tissue calcification, tubulointerstitial nephropathy, anorexia, nausea, electrocardiographic disturbances, and a spectrum of neurologic changes from headache to coma.