Parathyroid gland damage - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Test Bank Porth Pathophysiology Concepts of Altered Health States 2nd Canadian EditionTable of Contents Chapter 01: Concepts of Health and Disease .......................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 02: Concepts of Altered Health in Children ............................................................................................. 13 Chapter 03: Concepts of Altered Health in Older Adults ............................................

ATI Med-Surg Endocrine TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2023 A nurse is planning care for a client who is experiencing the Somogyi effect and takes intermittent-acting insulin. Which of the following actions should the nurse include in the plan? A) Move the evening intermediate-acting dose to 90 min. before dinner B) Increase the client's morning caloric intake C) Omit the client's evening snack D) Monitor the client's nighttime blood glucose levels - ANSWER D) Monitor the...

NRNP 6568 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers Latest 2023/2024 (Graded). Diabetes mellitus causes both microvascular and macrovascular damage. All of the following are indications of microvascular damage except: Selected Answer: Atherosclerosis Answers: Retinopathy Nephropathy Neuropathy Atherosclerosis  Question 7 1 out of 1 points Hemoglobin A1C is the average glucose level of what length of time? Selected Answer: 3 months Answers: 1 month 2 months 3 months 4 mo...

Monitor heart. Complications of the heart. - Low potassium (Hypokalemia) Epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol. Increase heart rate and increase in blood pressure - Catecholamines - Flight or fight response Plasma protein. It keeps water along with it. Water escapes into interstitial cell space. Swelling. Fluid is in the wrong places. Fluid in the peritoneal cavity. - Function of Albumin - decrease albumin - ascites Sodium and water retention - Function of aldosterone extracellular, inters...

1. A nurse is caring for a client who is Postoperative following a bilateral adrenalectomy. The Nurse should expect to administer glucocorticoids following the procedure to enhance which of the following therapeutic effects? B. Inhibit glucose metabolism C. Compensate for decreased cortisol levels D. Decrease susceptibility to infection E. Acts as a diuretic to maintain urine output Answer B Rational: with an adrenalectomy, the client requires glucocorticoids before, during, and after su...

TEST BANK ESSENTIALS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (4TH EDITION BY PORTH) CONTENTS Chapter 01 - Cell Structure and Function .......................................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 02 - Cellular Responses to Stress, Injury, and Aging .......................................................................................... 7 Chapter 03 - Inflammation, the Inflammatory Response, and Fever ..............................................

Test Bank Physical Examination and Health Assessment Final, 8th Edition Questions and Answers by Carolyn Jarvis Graded A+ A physician tells the nurse that a patient’s vertebra prominence is tender and asks the nurse to reevaluate the area in 1 hour. The area of the body the nurse will assess is: a. Just above the diaphragm. b. Just lateral to the knee cap. C. At the level of the C7 vertebra. D. At the level of the T11 vertebra. - Test Bank C A mother brings her 2-month-old da...

HURST Review: Endocrine, questions and answers 2023 The thyroid gland produces _____ hormones. What are they? 3; -T3 -T4 -Calcitonin Calcitonin decreases serum calcium levels by taking calcium out of the blood and pushing it back into the bone You need _____________ to make hormones iodine (this is dietary iodine-comes from salt) Thyroid hormones give us energy Hyperthyroid is AKA Graves' disease (most common cause) Hyperthyroidism: Signs/Symptoms -n...

ATI-TEAS Practice Tests Nov 2022. aka the windpipe - is a cylindrical portion of the respiratory tract that joins the larynx with the lungs connects the throat to the stomach - when someone swallows, this contracts to force the food down into the stomach - like other structures in the respiratory system, this structure secretes mucus for lubrication (1) Identify the tissue(s) that is/are striated (2) Identify the tissue(s) that is/are NOT striated a) cardiac b) smooth c) skel...

Med4 Question and answers already passed musculoskeletal system muscles, bones, and joints *2nd largest body system Minerals and Hormones - Affects growth and metabolism * Calcium (bone -99%) * Phosphorus (90%) * Calcitonin (treatments for musc.. disorders) * Vitamin D (promotes absorption of calcium) * Parathyroid hormone (PTH) * Growth hormone (GH) * Glucocorticoids * Estrogens and androgens * Thyroxine *insulin Calcitonin produced by thyroid gland - Lowers blood calc...

WGU pathophysiology D236-Exam Questions and Answers 2022/2023 What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? - ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressure (pushing water out of the capillaries) and osmotic pressure (including oncontic pressure, which pushes fluid into the capillaries). Bot...