Can drinking 1-2 cups of coffee (caffeine) cause hypertension? Cam escessive salt intake cause it?

What type of acid-base imbalance might develop in an individual: A. Who has taken an overdose of a depressant narcotic? B. Whither uncontrolled diabetes mellitus?

An inadequate (low) dietary intake of NaCl will cause A) increased angiotensin II production

Sue goes to the gym and after an initial warm-up, she increases her exercise level pushing herself to maximum.  At this point her heart rate is 175 beats/min and her stroke volume is 135 ml/beat.  What is her cardiac output now?     At this point, by how many ml/min has her CO increased over her resting CO?        What % increase over resting is this?  (Use the following equation).                                          amount of increase in CO in ml/min % increase =  _____________ X  100%                       original CO (resting) ml/min         What term is used to describe this increase in CO?

Order: 20 mcg/kg every 3 hours Weight: 40 kg How many mcg per dose will you give?

Hyponatremia symptoms can be observed when plasma Na ion levels drop by less than 10% of normal values O True False

Mrs. Johnson came into your clinic complaining of fatigue, feeling cold all the time, and unexplained weight gain.  A blood test gives the following results (normal ranges given for comparison):             T3:  0.03ng/dl  (normal: 0.2-0.5 ng/dl)             T4:  1.1 ug/dl (normal: 4-7 ug/dl)             TSH: 86 mU/l (normal: 0.3-4.0 mU/l) A) Explain how you know the problem is with Mrs. Johnson’s thyroid and not her pituitary gland.   B) Is Mrs. Johnson suffering from primary or secondary hypothyroidism? Explain your answer. you must explain the distinction between primary and secondary endocrine disorders and relate to this specific scenario

Individuals with cystic fibrosis produce thick mucus in the lungs, resulting in a higher-than-normal level of CO2 in the blood. What is the problem that results from higher-than-normal levels of COz in the blood? Please relate this to buffers in the blood and construct a clear problem statement.

A 68-year-old man taking medication for hypertension complains to his physician that it has made him impotent. Explain why this could be an effect of antihypertensive drugs.

A patient with severe hypotension has dopamine ordered at 5 mcg/kg/min. The patient weighs 67 kg. The concentration of dopamine is 3 g in 500 mL of normal saline. How many mL per hour should the IV pump be programmed for? Round to the nearest tenth and list only the number.