00:01 Next up liver function tests. 00:03 Now, you might not be as familiar with these but we can also learn a lot about specifically how the livers being impacted. 00:11 Now you see for pink boxes on the screen, right? The two on the left albumin and total protein kind of go together. 00:19 On the right, you see liver enzymes, AST, ALT, GGT or ALP. 00:26 Those are liver enzymes that are released when the liver is having some damage. 00:31 Bilirubin is the fourth pink box there. 00:34 So before we move on and talk about these specifically, I want you to pause and make sure your have this clear in your mind when you're going to evaluate a liver in cholecystitis, you're going to look at albumin, total protein, the enzymes that we have all grouped together for you and bilirubin.
The lecture Liver Function Tests – Blood Tests for Cholecystitis (Nursing) by Rhonda Lawes, PhD, RN is from the course Gallstones and Cholecystitis: Diagnosis (Nursing).
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