research assessment Flashcards
1
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4 main necessities of a good research assessment
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- correlative (risk, something related to something else)
- causative ( need something to cause something to happen)
- necessitive ( if we dont have a key part, won’t get the same outcome)
- descriptive (to measure something, it is what it is)
2
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what is needed for research
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- tools and assessments that are highly specialized
- highly standardized assessments
- validity and reliability
3
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what does craig study
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- integrative human physiology
- sympathetic nervous system control of cardiovascular function
- adaptation and plasticity related to physiological stressors
- specifically environmental stressors (decreased O2)
4
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a decrease in O2 availability
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- hypoxia
- less o2
- in environment or level of tissue
5
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a decrease in O2 in blood
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- hypoxaemia
- unable to maintain O2 in the blood
6
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categories (static) and caused of deviations (dynamic) from normoxia
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- ambient environment (hypoxia or hyperoxia)
- biological compartment (hypoxia or hyperoxia)
- control of respiration (hypoxia or hyperoxia)
7
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what effects our O2 uptake
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- our health, impaired ability to take up and circulate O2 (asthma, COPD, heart failure)
- our activities , use > availability
- our environment , reduction in environmental availability
8
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reduction in environmental availability
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- amount of environmental O2 is decreased
- barometric pressure of O2 changes
- molecules are further apart at higher altitudes
- each volume has less molecules of O2 in it
- O2 everywhere is constant (21%), doesn’t change but molecules do
- less O2 in every breath
9
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measuring hypoxia/hypoxaemia at places around the world
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- measures partial pressure
- 700mmHg in edmonton
- 760mmHg is sea level
- 250mmHg is Mt.Everest
10
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how to measure hypoxia/hypoxaemia
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- gas analyzer
- mass spectrometer
- pulse oximetery
- near-Infrared spectroscopy
- tissue microscopy
11
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gas analyzer
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- sees 21% of O2
- can change the O2 in the air (can change it to nitrogen)
- looks at gas present
- infared light
- O2 absorbs light to measure O2
- relatively cheap
12
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mass spectrometer
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- ionizes gas molecules
- very expensive
- gold standard
- can measure many substances
- challenges because some molecules weight the same / are similar
13
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pulse oximetery
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- light projected through tissues
- worn on finger and connected to watch
- amount of O2 bound to hemoglobin reflects certain light + and some that doesn’t bounces different light
- there’s different lights to determine between what you look for
- CO can bind to hemoglobin which if counted for can be dangerous
14
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near-InfraRed Spectroscopy
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- makes sure the brain is receiving O2
- more sensors to detect O2 in tissues + venous compartment
- is attached to the forehead
- penetrates deep in to tissue
15
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tissue microscopy
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- not for humans (rats)
- red cells circulation + desaturation
16
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arterial oxygen saturation
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- depending on the amount, is presented differently in thermal charts
- represents amount of O2 going to actual tissue
- uses computer modeling