Introduction of Patient
My patient is Freda Wilson, a 64-year-old Caucasian female who resides in Shawnee, Kansas with her husband. Mrs. Wilson is 5’5” tall and weighs 148 pounds, has two adult children, and is a relatively healthy individual. Mrs. Wilson and her husband spent five days in Oklahoma babysitting their grandchildren, two boys – one and three years old. Within 24 hours of returning home, Mrs. Wilson had a headache, felt fatigue, and later in the afternoon spiked a fever in excess of 101.5°. Mrs. Wilson, not seeing an improvement in her health in the proceeding 18 hours, visited her doctor, who diagnosed her with the common cold virus caused by the rhinovirus.
Body Systems and Physiologic Changes To help maintain homeostasis, …show more content…
The pulmonary circulation carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanges occur and the blood that leaves the lungs is now oxygenated and can be transported to the systemic circulation after traveling back through the heart and leaving the left ventricle. Within the systemic circulation, oxygenated blood is not only transported systemically, but wastes are removed from tissues and then returned to the right side of the heart for the pulmonary circulation to start its cycle again. In the pulmonary and systemic circulation systems, there are different types of blood vessels that aid in the transportation of oxygen, nutrients, and waste products including arteries, arterioles, capillaries, veins, and …show more content…
Electrolytes are vital in neurological and cardiac function, acid-base balance, fluid balance, and many other processes. The most critical electrolyte disruptions include hypernatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, hypokalemia, and hyperkalemia. The renal system works to maintain a relatively constant electrolyte balance in blood and body fluids, despite alterations that may be occurring. Electrolytes are what the cells, specifically those in the nerves, muscle, and heart use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to transport electrical impulses like muscle
My patient is Freda Wilson, a 64-year-old Caucasian female who resides in Shawnee, Kansas with her husband. Mrs. Wilson is 5’5” tall and weighs 148 pounds, has two adult children, and is a relatively healthy individual. Mrs. Wilson and her husband spent five days in Oklahoma babysitting their grandchildren, two boys – one and three years old. Within 24 hours of returning home, Mrs. Wilson had a headache, felt fatigue, and later in the afternoon spiked a fever in excess of 101.5°. Mrs. Wilson, not seeing an improvement in her health in the proceeding 18 hours, visited her doctor, who diagnosed her with the common cold virus caused by the rhinovirus.
Body Systems and Physiologic Changes To help maintain homeostasis, …show more content…
The pulmonary circulation carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanges occur and the blood that leaves the lungs is now oxygenated and can be transported to the systemic circulation after traveling back through the heart and leaving the left ventricle. Within the systemic circulation, oxygenated blood is not only transported systemically, but wastes are removed from tissues and then returned to the right side of the heart for the pulmonary circulation to start its cycle again. In the pulmonary and systemic circulation systems, there are different types of blood vessels that aid in the transportation of oxygen, nutrients, and waste products including arteries, arterioles, capillaries, veins, and …show more content…
Electrolytes are vital in neurological and cardiac function, acid-base balance, fluid balance, and many other processes. The most critical electrolyte disruptions include hypernatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, hypokalemia, and hyperkalemia. The renal system works to maintain a relatively constant electrolyte balance in blood and body fluids, despite alterations that may be occurring. Electrolytes are what the cells, specifically those in the nerves, muscle, and heart use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to transport electrical impulses like muscle