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| What test checks the amount of creatinine in the body? |
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| What is the normal creatinine in the body? |
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| High creatinine in the body is an indicator of what? |
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| What blood test measures renal function? |
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| Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) |
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| What is the normal BUN level in the body? |
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| What are the signs and Sx of fluid volume deficient? |
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Decrease urinary output
Increase pulse
Hypotension
Thirst
Weight loss |
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| What are the signs and Sx of fluid volume excess? |
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Hypertension
Tachycardia
Tachypnea
Weight loss
Confusion
Lethargy |
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| What is high potassium called? |
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| Patients with Hyperkalemia are at risk for what? |
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Decrease renal function
Metabolic Acidosis
Life threatening dysrhythmias |
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| What is low potassium called? |
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| Patients with Hypokalemia are at risk for what? |
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GI, renal, cardiovascular, and neurological disturbances.
Can also cause abnormal, potential, fatal heart rhythms. |
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| What is the largest portion of body weight? |
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| The more fat a person has the less what they have? |
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| Substances that develops an electrical charge when dissolved in water? |
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| The most abundant electrolyte; primary electrolyte in extracellular fluid? |
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| Found mainly in the intracellular fluid, the major intracellular cation? |
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| What electrolyte is a critical part in transmitting never impulses? |
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| An extracellular anion that is usually bounded with other ions; esp sodium or potassium? |
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| If sodium is high in the body what electrolyte is usually low? |
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| What is usually combined with phosphorus to form the mineral salt of the bones and teeth? |
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| What percent of Ca is extracellular fluid? |
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| A cation found in bone; and is an intracellular fluid? |
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| What are examples of non-electrolytes? |
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Urea
Protein
Glucose
Creatinine
Bilirubin |
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Normal substance moves from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration?
It does not require energy. |
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Carrier proteins transports from an area of lower concentration to an area of equal or greater concentration?
This requires a lot of energy. |
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| Transfer of water and solutes through a membrane from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure. |
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| Movement of water across a membrane from a less concentration to a more concentrated solution? |
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| Normal value for Serum Sodium? |
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| Normal value for Serum Potassium? |
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| Normal value for Serum Chloride? |
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| Normal value for Serum Magnesium? |
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| Normal value for Serum Calcium? |
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| Normal urine specific gravity levels? |
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| A test that checks the percentage of blood volume composed of RBC's? |
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| Normal value for Serum Hematocrit? |
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