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If a person does some very intense exercise, what is likely to happen to the acidity
of their blood? - ✔✔The pH will go down slightly, meaning the fluids are more
acidic
Patricia is suffering from emphysema which is limiting gas transfer in her lungs.
Her arterial oxygen is low and her arterial carbon dioxide is high. However, the
acidity of her arterial blood is still within normal limits. What is Patricia's body
doing to keep the pH within normal limits? - ✔✔Patricia's kidneys will be
excreting more acid to compensate for the high arterial carbon dioxide level.
People who suffer from asthma attacks are sometimes taught to breathe out
through a small tube while they are having an attack. What good would this do? -
✔✔The narrow tube would cause the air pressure inside the airways to
increase, preventing the collapse of small airways during expiration.
Premature babies may deveop great difficulty breathing immediately after birth,
and have to make huge efforts to breathe - a condition known as infant
respiratory distress syndrome. If this occurred, they would be given a particular
drug via a breathing tube. What would this drug do? - ✔✔It would reduce the
surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs, allowing the babies to inflate their
lungs more easily
Soft bones (osteomalacia) and rickets can be a problem in people who keep their
entire skin surface covered most of the time, for example, muslim women who
wear a burka. Why would this be? - ✔✔Bones rely on their calcium content to
make them hard, and calcium absorption into the body is dependent on the active
form of vitamin D. Vitamin D is converted to an active form by the action of
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