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ABG's - Answer-Atrial Blood Gas levels indicate acidosis or alkalosis Compensated by Chemical buffers, Respiratory or Metabolic systems Compensated ABG - Answer-is when the pH is normal and the blood gas is abnormal Uncompensated ABG - Answer-When the pH is abnormal and one of the blood gas...

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SLCC Pathophysiology Exam Questions
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ABG's - Answer-Atrial Blood Gas levels indicate acidosis or alkalosis
Compensated by Chemical buffers, Respiratory or Metabolic systems

Compensated ABG - Answer-is when the pH is normal and the blood gas is abnormal

Uncompensated ABG - Answer-When the pH is abnormal and one of the blood gas is
abnormal

Partially Compensated ABG - Answer-When the pH and all of the blood gas is abnormal

Acute Inflammation - Answer-Begins before the immune response becomes established
and aims primarily at removing the injury causing agent and limiting the extent of tissue
damage. Acute inflammation is limited and usually resolves with little or no treatment.

Vascular Phase - Answer-SHARP
Chemical Mediators

SHARP - Answer-Swelling
Heat
Altered Function
Redness
Pain

Chemical Mediators - Answer-Causing vasodilation
Causing capillary permeability
Causing blood flow to slow down so clotting can begin
Chemical mediators signal WBCs to congregate in the area of damage

Cellular Phase - Answer-Leukocytes (primarily neutrophils - "first responders") are
delivered to the site of infection/injury and EMIGRATE through the blood vessel wall into
the tissue
WBCs move through the tissue by CHEMOTAXIS ("chemical taxi's") or moving along a
chemical gradient

Alopecia - Answer-Hair Loss

Angiogenesis - Answer-New blood vessel formation to support cancer cells

Antibodies - Answer-Attach to cell markers to prevent cellular function

Antigens - Answer-Cell markers

, Benign - Answer-Differentiated
Encased
Slow growth
On top of tissue
Do not metastasize
Tactilely Movable

Malignant - Answer-Not well differentiated
Fast growth
in the tissue
breaks off
metastasizes
Fixed-not tactilely movable

BRMs - Answer-Enhance or Repress immune system- s/s of chemo
Got DAVe
1. stop Growth signals
2. Deliver radiation and chemo directly to cells
3. stop Angiogenesis
4. make cancer more Visible to immune system

Blood Dycrasias - Answer-Anemia
Leukopenia
Thrombocytopenia

s/s Anemia - Answer-Low O₂ fatigue, weakness

s/s Leukopenia - Answer-Low WBC infections

s/s Thrombocytopenia - Answer-Low Platelets bleeding

Cachexia - Answer-Wasting away. Increase BMR mobilizes energy in skeletal muscle
where the tumor steals away nutrients.

Cancer Cells - Answer-not well differentiated rapid uncontrollable growth

Cancer Staging - Answer-I in situ
II localized
III regional
IV metastasize

TNM - Answer-T-tumor size
N-Lymph nodes affected
M-metastasize

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