Pulmonary circulation - Route. 1  Pulmonary circulation is the movement of blood from the heart, to the lungs, and back to the heart.
A patient presents in the ER with a severely low hemoglobin and hematocrit count. Symptomatology includes listlessness, pale, pallor, and hypotensive. The initial assumption is blood loss via the gastrointestinal tract. As either an FNP or an AG-ACNP student, provide an initial evaluation for either a pediatric or an adult patient. In addition, include the following in your presentation:
Pallor is an abnormal loss of skin or mucous membrane color. It can develop suddenly or gradually, depending on the cause. It needs to be properly distinguished from other symptoms such as whitening of the skin or hypopigmentation (loss of skin pigment).allor may be very difficult to detect in a dark-skinned person -- sometimes it is apparent only in the eye and mouth lining. Paleness may be the result of decreased blood supply to the skin (cold, fainting, shock, hypoglycemia) or decreased number of red blood cells (anemia).