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NU 327 Exam 4 Questions and Answers All Correct How is hyperlipidemia treated? - Answer - life style changes - drugs for reducing triglycerides and cholesterol - angioplasty - CABG What is cardiac output and what is normal? - Answer heart rate: 0-100 bpm CO= SV x HR What is the formula for BP? - Answer BP = CO x PVR MAP (mean arterial pressure) - Answer SBP + 2(DBP)/3 Normal is 70-110 Arterial control - Answer increases cardiac output (CO) Renin angiotensin aldoste...

NU 327 Exam 5 Questions with All Correct Answers What is neurogenic bladder? - Answer- A disruption in the nervous control of micturation -Stroke -Parkinsonism -Spinal cord injuries/defects What are the types of incontinence? - Answer- -Urge -Stress -Mixed -Overflow -Functional What is urge incontinence? - Answer- -Sudden sensation of a need to urinate -Most common type in older men -Overactive detrusor muscle that contracts Causes: Aging Bladder infections Tumor/radiation...

NU 327 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT What are the three factors of Virchow's triad? - Answer- venous stasis (sluggish blood flow), hypercoagulability, and damage to the venous wall (intimal injury). What are most common risk factors of venous thromboembolus formation? - Answer- Immobility, trauma, pregnancy, cancer, heart failure, and estrogen use. Symptoms of pulmonary venous thromboembolus - Answer- Varies secondary to size of embolus and underlying cardiopulmonary conditio...

NU 327 Exam 3 Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers (Verified Answers) Already Graded A+ What are clinical manifestations of arterial blood clots? - Answer- -intermittent claudication -cool to touch -cyanotic -arterial ulcer What are clinical manifestations of venous blood clots? - Answer- -may be asymptomatic to life threatening -calf or groin tenderness -edema -increased skin temperature -homan sign (10%) What is disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic)? - Answer- -abnor...

NU 327 Exam 3 Questions with All Correct Answers Emphysema pathogenesis - Answer- - release of proteolytic enzymes from inflammatory cells, smoking stimulates response and inactivates antitrypsin - breakdown of alveolar walls, abnormal enlargement of air sacs Emphysema loss of alveolar wall - Answer- - decreased capillary beds for gas exchange - decreased elasticity of lung tissue - increased airway resistance and decreased air flow - air trapping in alveoli emphysema s&s - Answer- -...

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NU 327 Pathophysiology Exam 3 Questions with All Correct Answers Chronic bronchitis clinical manifestations - Answer- Chronic cough Overweight Excess body fluids (edema, hypervolemia) Increased sputum production Dyspnea on exertion Muscle aches Fatigue End stage Right heart failure Edema Airway obstruction is persistent and irreversible Chronic bronchitis diagnosis - Answer- Chronic or recurrent productive cough of more than 3 months and occurring each year for 2 or more successive...

Nu 327 Exam 1 2024 Questions with 100% Correct Answers what are some factors of delayed healing? - Answer- Malnutrition, Oxygen delivery, Impaired Inflammatory/Immune response, Infection/contamination, Foreign bodies, Dehiscence, Evisceration, Circulation, Obesity, Age, diabetics Dehiscence - Answer- wound splits open Evisceration - Answer- what's behind the wound comes out stages of a fever - Answer- prodromal, chill, flush, defervescance Prodromal - Answer- don't feel good, b...

NU 327 Exam 2 Exam with All Correct Answers 2024 Update Etiology of humoral immunodeficiency - Answer- inability to produce Ig (recurrent pyogenic infections); could be a single antibody not being produced or all Etiology of cell mediated immunodeficiency - Answer- still lots of infections and even cancers; cell mediated immunity does not function correctly Etiology of combined immunodeficiency - Answer- lack both humoral and cell immunodeficiency; SCIDS HIV - Answer- retrovirus (ge...

NU 327 Exam 4 Questions with All Correct Answers Orthostatic Hypertension - Answer- decreases BP when moving from resting to non-resting SBP drop 20 >mmHg or DBP 10>mmHg Alterations in Cardiac function - Answer- Coronary Heart Disease Ischemia Myocardial ischemia Agina Pectoris myocardial infarction Vulvar disease Disorders of Mitral Valve Mitral Valve Prolapse Coronary Heart Disease - Answer- underlying cause: atherosclerosis. plaque build up in coronary arteries (arterie...