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Her Hemoglobin Is Normal. Is Her Iron? What NPs Should Know About Iron Deficiency Before Anemia
Her hemoglobin is normal.
So iron deficiency is ruled out...right?
Not necessarily.
Iron deficiency does not begin the day hemoglobin falls below the reference range. Iron stores can become depleted before anemia develops, and that creates an important clinical question for nurse practitioners:
How do we recognize iron deficiency before anemia without turning every low-normal ferritin into a diagnosis?
In this episode of The Integrative Clinician, Dr. Sheri Erwin takes a deeper look at iron through the lens of integrative clinical reasoning.
We start with two very different patients: a male…
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