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Chapter 21
Paramedic: Genitourinary and Renal Emergencies
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01/30/2013

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How much blood do the kidneys filter everyday?
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200L 1161
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What is the most common acute renal disease?
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Renal Calculi (Kidney Stones) 1161
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What filters blood and produces urine?
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Kidneys 1161
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What transports urine from the kidneys to the bladder?
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Ureters 1161
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What stores the urine until it is released from the body?
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Urinary Bladder 1161
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What is the route by which urine leaves the bladder and exits the body?
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Urethra 1161
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What is a cleft where the ureters, renal blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves enter and leave the kidneys?
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Hilus 1161
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What is a layer of dense fibrous connective tissue that anchors the kidneys to the abdominal wall?
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Renal Fascia 1161
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What is incomplete emptying of the bladder, or even a complete lack of ability to empty the bladder?
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Urinary Retention 1167
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What is inflammation of the kidney linings?
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Pyelonephritis 1169
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What is loss of bladder control-the inability to control the release of urine from the bladder?
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Urinary Incontinence 1169
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What is urine output of less than 500 mL/day?
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Oliguria 1170
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What is complete cessation of urine production?
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Anuria 1170
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What is chronic inflammation of the interstitial cells surrounding the nephrons?
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Interstitial Nephritis 1171
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What is toxic to the kidneys?
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Nephrotoxic 1172
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What is a powdery accumulation of uric acid?
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Uremic Frost 1172
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What is the inability to retract the distal foreskin over the glans penis?
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Phimosis 1177
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What results when the foreskin is retracted over the glans penis and becomes entrapped?
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Paraphimosis 1177
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What is the most common renal disorder?
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Kidney Disease 1161
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How much of the body's systemic cardiac output flows through the kidneys each minute?
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25% 1162
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What is found in the cortex, are the structural and functional units of the kidney that form urine?
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Nephrons 1162
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What is a double-layered cup in which the inner layer infiltrates and surrounds the capillaries of the glomerulus?
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Glomerular Capsule 1162
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What is a series of peritubular capillaries that surround the loop of Henle?
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Vasa Recta 1163
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