NU 327 Test 4 Questions and Answers All Correct Update
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NU 327 Test 4 Questions and Answers All Correct Update
What are the causes of Respiratory Acidosis? - Answer- - impaired gas exchange (COPD, bacterial pneumonia, asthma)
- brain injury or stroke -- MAIN CAUSE
- Guillan-Barre Syndome: inability to use voluntary muscles
- opioids
What is pol...
NU 327 Test 4 Questions and
Answers All Correct 2024-2025
Update
What are the causes of Respiratory Acidosis? - Answer- - impaired gas exchange
(COPD, bacterial pneumonia, asthma)
- brain injury or stroke -- MAIN CAUSE
- Guillan-Barre Syndome: inability to use voluntary muscles
- opioids
What is polydispia? - Answer- excessive thirst because the patient is loosing a lot of
fluid
What causes cushing disease? - Answer- prolonged use of steroid
What is polyphagia? - Answer- eating all the time -- body cannot convert food to energy
-> hunger
What was the clinical manifestations of Respiratory Acidosis? - Answer- - pH below 7.4
- headache: vasodilation
- tachycardia: from heart cells being affected by pH change
- dyrrhythmias (hyperkalemeia)
- neurologic abnormalities
what is polyuria? - Answer- excessive urination -- when glucose levels are so high that
glucose is excreted in the urine
what type of neurologic abnormalities will patients with respiratory acidosis experience?
- Answer- - blurred vision
- tremors
- vertigo
- disorientation/lethargy
what is hyperglycemia? - Answer- when their is NOT enough insulin in the body
why will patients with Respiratory Acidosis experience dysrhthmias? - Answer- due to
too much potassium (cells will take in H+ and kicks out potassium in the blood)
what is diabetes type II resistant to? - Answer- the action of insulin on peripheral tissue
, what system is the problem in Respiratory Alkalsosis? - Answer- LUNGS -- we are
breathing too fast, possibly bc we are hypoxic (air hungry)
what is Respiratory Alkalsosis due to? - Answer- hyperventilation
what are the S/S of Respiratory Alkalsosis? - Answer- - numbness and tingling: from
HYPOcalcemia
- carpal & pedal spasms
- excitation
- confusion
- DECREASED blood flow to the brain
in Respiratory Alkalsosis what is the compensatory mechanism? - Answer- the renal
system will compensate by DECREASING its excretion of H+
what is carbonic acid? - Answer- volatile acid, it is a gas
where does our body get rid of Carbonic Acid? - Answer- through the lungs (water +
CO2)
T/F: Buffers would ALL of the time. - Answer- true
where does our body get rid of metabolic acid? - Answer- through the kidneys
if our pH levels are not right, what will initiate the buffer system? - Answer- chemo
receptors (sensitive to pH)
what acid does the lungs get rid of? - Answer- carbonic acid
we will look at _______ to see if the lungs are working properly - Answer- PaCO2
why might the lungs NOT be working properly? - Answer- - smoking
- COPD
- meds
- trauma
if we have too much carbonic acid the lungs will go to work and ______________ -
Answer- HYPERventilate --- they will blow off CO2 (too much PaCO2)
if we do NOT have enough acid our lungs will go to work and __________ - Answer-
HYPOventilate -- decreased rate and depth of respirations, want to hold on
how we we measure acidity and alkalinity? - Answer- pH
what is diabetes mellitus? - Answer- disease in which the body doesn't produce enough
insulin
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