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Electrolytes Flashcards

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1
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A decreased osmolality shuts off what

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ADH

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2
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An increased osmolality stimulates to responses that regulate water

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Hypothalamus stimulates ADH and the posterior pituitary secretes ADH

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3
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What provides oncotic pressure

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Albumin

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4
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What determines osmotic pressure of extracellular fluid

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Sodium

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5
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What is the major cation of extracellular fluid outside cell

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Sodium

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6
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The atpase pump pumps three sodium out and to potassium in to cell

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3 Na out, 2 K in

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7
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In nephrotic syndrome and hepatic cirrhosis plasma proteins are

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Decreased

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8
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Aldosterone deficiency, Addison’s disease, diabetes

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Decreased sodium level

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9
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Excess water loss resulting in dehydration

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Increased sodium levels

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10
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The major cation of intracellular fluid

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Potassium

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11
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What is critically important to the functions of neuromuscular cell

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Potassium

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12
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The kidneys regulate the balance of what

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Potassium

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13
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Potassium is readily excreted but gets reabsorbed in the proximal tubule under the control of what

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Aldosterone

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14
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Increased aldosterone promotes sodium reabsorption, potassium is excreted in its place

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Decreased potassium levels

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15
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Decreased magnesium levels can increase potassium loss

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Decreased potassium levels

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16
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An increase in what leads to acidosis and renal disease

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Increase potassium levels

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17
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What is the major anion of extracellular fluid

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Chloride

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18
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Chloride moves passively with a sodium or against bicarbonate to maintain what charge

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Neutral electrical charge

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19
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How is chloride regulated

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In the kidney, chloride is reabsorbed in the renal proximal tubules along with sodium

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20
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Chronic respiratory acidosis and aldosterone deficiency

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Decrease chloride levels

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21
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Metabolic acidosis, congestive heart failure, dehydration is caused by

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Increase serum chloride

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22
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What is the major anion of intracellular fluid and the second most important and ion in extracellular fluid

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Bicarbonate ion

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23
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What transports CO2 from the tissue to the lungs

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Bicarbonate

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24
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What accounts for 90% of total plasma CO2

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Bicarbonate

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25
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An increased renal secretion is alkalosis and a decreased renal excretion is acidosis

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Bicarbonate is regulated by secretion and reabsorption of the renal tubules

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26
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Kenny regulation requires the enzyme

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Carbonic anhydrase which is present in renal tubular cells and red blood cells

27
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What is the body’s major base substance that accepts a hydrogen ion

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Bicarbonate ion

28
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CO2 transport forms what percents

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65% bicarbonate, 27% carbaminohemoglobin, 8% dissolved plasma

29
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What is the fourth most abundant cation in body and second intracellularly

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Magnesium

30
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53% found in bone and 46% found in muscle and other organs

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Magnesium

31
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What regulation is related to calcium and sodium in that the parathyroid increases the renal reabsorption of magnesium and enhances reabsorption in the intestine

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Magnesium

32
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Aldosterone and thyroxine increase

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Renal excretion

33
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What is controlled largely by the kidneys

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Magnesium

34
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A low blood calcium and low potassium is associated with

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Magnesium deficiency

35
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An increased magnesium result in

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Dehydration, Addison’s disease

36
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what is essential for myocardial contraction and is 99% in the body is part of bone

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Calcium

37
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What three hormones regulate calcium

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Pth, vitamin D, calcitonin

38
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Pth secretion is stimulated by a decrease in ionized calcium and is stopped by an increase in ionized calcium

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Calcium

39
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What originates in the medullary cells of the thyroid gland and is secreted when calcium concentration in blood increases. Laura’s calcium by inhibiting the actions of both pth and vitamin D

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Calcitonin

40
Q

Twitching of facial muscles in response to tapping over the facial nerve

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Chvosteks - Tetany

41
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Carpopedal spasm induced by pressure applied to the arm by an inflated blood pressure cuff

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Trousseau

42
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What maybe absorbs and intestine from dietary sources and released from cells into blood and lost from bone

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Phosphate

43
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Lymphoblasts have four times the amount of what in them as mature lymphocytes

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Phosphate

44
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The byproduct of an emergency mechanism that produces a small amount of ATP when oxygen is severely diminished

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Lactate

45
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What is the byproduct of anaerobic metabolism

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Lactate

46
Q

Uncontrolled diabetes and severe renal disorders

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Increased anion gap

47
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What is measured by the difference in unmeasured anions and cations inBlood

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Anion gap

48
Q

The difference between calculated and determined osmolality is the

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Osmolar Gap

49
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Freezing point depression is the preferred method and vapor pressure depression dew point are determinations of

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Osmolality

50
Q

Plasma or serum calcium is in three forms

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45% free or ionized, 40% albumin, 15% and I am such as phosphate and citrate

51
Q

Free and complex calcium are diffusible while protein bound calcium is not only what calcium is physiologically active

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Ionized

52
Q

When there is a decrease in ionized calcium what hormone helps bring calcium levels back to normal

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Pth

53
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What hormone from the thyroid gland is the antagonist to pth that inhibits calcium loss from the bones and secretes it in high levels of calcium

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Calcitonin

54
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If a specimen is left sitting in the open air the pH will rise as the CO2 diffuses out in what specimen

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Chloride

55
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The parathyroid hormone does what to calcium and magnesium and then what to phosphorus

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Increases calcium and magnesium and decreases phosphorus

56
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Aldosterone does what to magnesium and sodium

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Decreases

57
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Vitamin D does what to calcium and phosphorus

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Increases

58
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Calcitonin does what to calcium and phosphorus

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Decreases

59
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During the chloride shift which anion replaces chlorine in the ECF

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Bicarb

60
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Which hormone increases the retention of sodium from the kidneys

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Aldosterone

61
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Which anion passively follows sodium

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Chloride

62
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Which hormone increases calcium levels in Serum by activating bone resorption

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PTH

63
Q

Most electrolytes are measured by which method

A

Ion selective electrode

64
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ADH is released in response to

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Increased osmolality

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