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NURS 5315 UTA etExam 1: Concept and Clinical Complication Study Guide Solutions Action Potential: Hypokalemia leads to what complications - ANSWER-Potassium leaves the cell leaving behind negative anions, cell hyperpolarizes making the cell more negative and therefore less excitable CC: Weakn...

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NURS 5315 UTA etExam 1: Concept
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Action Potential: Hypokalemia leads to what complications -

ANSWER✔✔-Potassium leaves the cell leaving behind negative anions, cell

hyperpolarizes making the cell more negative and therefore less excitable




CC: Weakness, Smooth Muscle atony, parathesias (pins and needles),

Cardiac dysrythmias


Action Potential: Hyperkalemia lead to what complications - ANSWER✔✔-

Increased potassium will come into the cell and make it more positive,

depolarization will occur taking the RMP closer to the Threshold potential.

This makes cells more excitable.




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,CC: Peak T waves, Widening QRS Complex, paralysis, paresthesia,

weakness, cardiac dysrhythmia


Action Potential: Hypercalcemia - ANSWER✔✔-High calcium (Ca2+)

decreases the cells permeability to Na+ ions. Cell becomes less positive.

Hyper polarized and less excitable




CC: Weakness, hyporeflexia, fatigue, lethargy, confusion, encephalopathy,

Shorted QT segment, Depressed widened T waves


Action Potential: Hypocalcemia - ANSWER✔✔-Less Calcium leads to more

per i ability of Na+ ions into the cell. The cell becomes more positive and

depolarizes. Closed to threshold potential means more excitable cells.




CC: Tetany (involuntary contraction of muscle), hyperreflexia, circumoral

paresthesia, seizures, dysrythmias


Atrophy - ANSWER✔✔-CC: Decreased muscle size due to lack of exercise

or bed ridden, reduced thymus in children as they grow



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, Hypertrophy - ANSWER✔✔-Physiologic: Increased muscle size when

exercising


Pathologic: cardiomegaly in HTN, kidney growth when one kidney is

removed


Hyperplasia - ANSWER✔✔-Physiologic: Liver regeneration after resection,

uterine and mammary gland enlargement in pregnancy




Pathologic: Endometrial lining in response to estrogen (Endometrial

Cancer)


Metaplasia - ANSWER✔✔-Pathologic: Chronic Smokers Columnar cells to

Squamous cells, Barrett Esophagus (Normal squamous epithelial cells

replaced by columnar cells) in response to heart burn, GERD


Dysplasia - ANSWER✔✔-Dysplastic cells of the cervix during a papsmear,

pre cancerous


Sickle Cell Anemia can cause what type of cell injury? - ANSWER✔✔-

Hypoxic injury



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