What would cause a decrease in red blood cells, RBC?
Inadequate intake of iron
How do your brain cells differ from other cells in the body?
Brain
... [Show More] cells do not store glucose as glycogen and they send signals to adjoin cells more quickly.
What changes in sensory function due to aging?
Hearing, Vision, Smell and taste
What increase the basal meta rate in adults?
Stress
Three major body fluid compartments?
Intracelluar, interstitial and vascular space
Chronic hypertension would cause what changes in the blood vessels?
Damage to arterioles resulting with increased blood flow through the blood vessels.
Principle function of blood flow to the cardiac system?
To provide oxygen and remove the carbon dioxide waste products.
Air enters the lungs.....
Expands the pressure inside the lungs and becomes negative compared to atmospheric pressure causing air to enter the lungs
What controls the body's immune response?
WBCs or lymphocytes
The ability to correct and excess of deficit of a metabolic acid depends on normal function of what system?
Endocrine System
Rate and depth perception in a normal adult?
Chemo receptors in response to the acid base oxygen status
Firing of the sinus node to trigger state of cardiac cycle?
Autonomic Nervous System
What is the control center of homeostasis?
The hypothalamus receives and interprets and acts on the message sent from the receptors.
What system controls homeostasis?
Endocrine and Nervous System
Where does gas exchange in the lungs occur?
alveoli
What symptoms would a patient with gout present?
Red swollen feet
Where is the most of our food digested?
Small intestine
What regulates decision making, problem solving, control of purposeful behavior, emotion and contagiousness?
Frontal Lobe
What is the principle function of blood flow to the cardiac system?
To provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and waste.
What are the effects of asthma on the lungs?
Inflames/narrows the bronchioles and airways while increasing mucus production.
How does the blood flow through the heart?
Superior or Inferior Vena Cava - Right Atrium - Tricuspid Valve - Right Ventricle - Pulmonic Valve- Pulmonary artery - Lungs - Pulmonary veins - Left Atrium - Mitral (Bicuspid) valves - Left Ventricle - Aortic Valve - Aorta - Body (Systemic circulation)
How does air travel through the lungs?
air must travel through the nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchiole to reach the alveoli
Which system controls metabolism?
Endocrine and Central Nervous System
Association, judgement and discrimination takes place
Brain function of cerebral cortex
How do electrolytes exchange between interstitial fluid and external interstitial fluid?
Osmosis
How is oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged through red blood cells?
Diffusion
What is responsible for the regulation of PH in the body?
Urinary
The brain and spinal cord are apart of what system?
Central Nervous System
Expands the pressure inside the lungs and becomes negative compared to atmospheric pressure causing what?
When air enters the lungs
What are the three major body fluid compartments?
Extracellular interstitial and vascular space
If a RN is examining a patient with gout. What should the patients foot look like?
Inflammation and redness, mainly in the big toe.
What system controls metabolism?
Endocrine
How does air travel through the heart?
Harynx, Larynx, Trachea, Bronchi, Bronchi-oles, Alveoli
How does blood flow through the heart?
Inferior and superior vena cava (1) dump blood into the right atrium (2)
Right ventricle (3)
2 pulmonary arteries (4) that lead to the lungs (5) where blood becomes oxygenated
Pulmonary veins (6) bring blood from the lungs back to the left atrium (7)
Left ventricle (8) is large and muscular to pump blood into the aorta (9) and to the rest of the body (10)
Eventually blood will be pumped back to each vena cava (1)
What are the fluid compartments of the body?
intracellular and extracellular (including interstitial)
What is the control center for homeostasis?
the hypothalamus receives and interprets and acts on he messages sent from the receptors
What is the autonomic nervous system?
the part of the nervous system responsible for control of the bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive processes. [Show Less]