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| What drug may be ordered by medical direction to correct the underlying electrolyte imbalance in hyperkalemia |
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| sodium bicarbonate 1mEq/kg IV |
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| What physiologic problem makes patiends in renal failure more susceptible to hypoxia? |
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| which patient may develop acute renal failure related to prerenal disease? |
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| what physical finding should you expect when you assess a patiend who has untreated chronic renal failure |
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| bilateral crackles in the lungs |
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| which is a characteristic dialysate fluid for peritoneal and hemodialysis must have compared with blood so water is removed from the vascular space? |
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| what is a life-threatning risk of fournier gangrene |
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| what is a risk of benign prostatic hypertrophy if it is untreated |
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| which of the following testicular masses is potentially lethal |
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| which genitourinary emergency requires treatment within 4 hours to prevent irreversible damage? |
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| which of the following is a prerenal cause of acute renal failure? |
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| how is prehospital care affected if the patiend has a dialysis fistula or shunt? |
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| bp should be done on opposite arm |
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| you are caring for a patiend with a temperature who is continuous peritoneal dialysis. what is a common cause of fever in patients undergoing this treatment? |
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| Where are the kidneys located? |
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| what are the three causes of renal failure classified as? |
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| prerenal, intrarenal, and postrenal |
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| what is prerenal disease? |
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| occurs before the kidney is reached. characterized by inadequate blood flow to the kidneys. |
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| What is intrarenal disease? |
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| refers to disease or damage within the kidney. |
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| what is postrenal disease |
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| refers to disease that blocks the system that collects urine. |
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| excrete less that 500 ml a day |
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| these patients excrete more that 500 ml a day |
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| machine that works as your kidneys for filtration |
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| what is the urinary system made up of? |
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| two kidneys, two ureters, the urinary bladder, and the urethra. |
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| decreased urine production |
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| excess of urea and other nitrogenous wastes in the blood. |
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| A nitrogen-containing waste product |
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| a chemical waste molecule generated by muscle metabolism |
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| what are the signs of uremia |
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-Pasty, yellow skin discoloration and thin extremities
from protein wasting
-Uremic frost caused by urea crystals that form on skin
(late finding) |
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| personality changes in CRF |
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- Fatigue
• Mental dullness
• Confusion |
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| What drug do you push with hyperkalemia |
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| calcium and sodium bicarbonate during resuscitation |
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| inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters |
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| inflammation of the urethra |
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| inflammation of the kidney parenchyma (upper urinary tract) |
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| what is a urinary calculi? |
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| (kidney stones) that are pathological concretions that originate in the renal pelvis |
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| inflammation of the epididymis, a tubular section of the male reproductive system that carries sperm for tom the testicle to the seminal vesicles. |
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| tightness of the foreskin |
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| an erection that lasts 4 hours or longer and occurs without sexual stimulation. |
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| What is testicular torsion? |
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| a testicle (usually the left) twists on its spermatic cord, disrupting the blood supply of the testicle. |
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