Respiratory Care Case Question Part 1 of 3. Use the following information to answer this question: Your patient today in the emergency department presented with severe diarrhea. They had an ABG procedure performed in their distal radial artery and the results show normal PCO2 levels, high H+ levels/low pH and low bicarbonate levels. Answer the following based on everything you learned about the carbonic anhydrase (CA)–mediated buffer reaction and the regulatory control of ventilation via respiratory chemoreceptor reflexes (including the peripheral ones at the carotid and aortic bodies as well as the central ones in the medulla oblongata): Based on the ABG results, what type of pathological acid-base disturbance is the patient suffering from (hint: it is the opposite of what’s seen in severe vomiting)?

If you were to sum a patient’s inspiratory and expiratory reserve volumes and also add the tidal volume, this would give you a lung capacity measurement called:

You have an adult patient suspected to be in metabolic acidemia, AKA acidosis. If they were in the process of compensating, then you would expect (hyperventilation OR hypoventilation). If the patient was instead suspected to be in respiratory acidosis, and they were in the process of renal compensation, then you would expect their kidneys to be (reabsorbing OR excreting) bicarbonate.

During the sympathetic fight or flight response one would expect the smooth muscle of the lung bronchioles to ___________.

The ____________nerve (give name NOT number) is the major source of parasympathetic (craniosacral) outflow.

True or False? The term acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a very specific term that is synonymous with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).

You are charged with helping to take care of the patient who is deteriorating from a glioblastoma, AKA glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) or a grade IV astrocytoma, which is the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer. It’s a fast-growing tumor that can spread within the brain and to other parts of the body (metastasis) in the median survival is only about a year after diagnosis with standard treatment. The most recent imaging of your patient shows that the tumor invaded and destroyed the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland and the most recent lab work is showing he is hypernatremic and he has hyposthenuria, where the urine has a relatively low osmolarity due to inability of the kidney to concentrate the urine normally. The attending physician submits an order to for you to start intravenous administration of the drug desmopressin (a synthetic analog of vasopressin, AKA antidiuretic hormone). Taking all this together, from the options below, which is a disease that mostly likely could have developed based on the HPI (history of present illness), recent test results, and the medication order?

Venous blood arrive to the _____ atrium via the CS, SVC and IVC, then passes through the _____ valve to enter the _____ ventricle where it then goes through the pulmonary semilunar valve to enter the pulmonary trunk which splits into the pulmonary ______.

True or False? The type of hypertension which has no clear cause other than being hereditary is primary (essential) hypertension and accounts for about 90-95% of cases. Whereas, the type of hypertension that is due to an underlying pathology is called secondary hypertension and accounts for the other 5-10% of cases.

Coronary heart disease, AKA coronary artery disease, accounts for the majority of cardiovascular disease related deaths and is the single largest killer of Americans, both men and women. The underlying cause is thought to be atherosclerosis, which can develop as a result of chronic hypertension. Atherosclerosis has been shown to be an inflammatory process associated with: