Acidosis

One potentially life threatening complication is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). “DKA is a state of absolute or relative insulin deficiency aggravated by ensuing hyperglycemia, dehydration, and acidosis-producing derangements in intermediary metabolism. The most common causes are underlying infection, disruption of insulin treatment, and new onset of diabetes” (Hamdy, 2014). DKA is characterized by blood glucose of higher than 300 mg/dL resulting…

Coffee or Tea Which is Better? Coffee and tea are currently the world’s most commonly used stimulants. Whereas the two are of different chemical structure and composition, they share a common chemical that is caffeine. Tea, for instance, contains caffeine and methylxanthenes such as theobromine and theophylline which are also human central nervous system stimulants. Tea is derived from a plant, Camellia sinensis, which was first grown in South East Asia and used as a beverage. It has over the…

will find it really easy to use the program for your benefit. Fat diminisher system is all about healthy living that consists of a proper diet that becomes the game changer. The main objective of this weight loss program is to control the metabolic acidosis which is commonly found in adult humans who are more than 30 years of age. This condition often occurs to a person when his liver reaches the maximum level of acidity and fails to speed up metabolism. The slowdown of the metabolic rate starts…

Dehydration simply means decrease of water or fluid in the body, it occurs when we use lose more fluid or water than we intake daily and our body have no enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions. We lose water every day in the form of sweat, urine, and stool. Along with the water, small amounts of salts are also lost. When we lose too much water we may be dehydrated. In some cases, severe dehydration may lead to death. Sweating is the body’s natural way to release excess…

gas exchanges are limited due to ventilation/perfusion exchange. Muscle fatigue is also another issue that can be caused by exacerbation. When muscle fatigue happens it causes hypoventilation and can cause hypoxaemia, hypercapnia, and respiratory acidosis. When these occur it can develop into respiratory failure. Once respiratory failure has started it causes pulmonary vasoconstriction that increases the load to the right ventricle. Once this has happen with renal changes it goes into peripheral…

a. Decreased Abdominal compliance: Alteration in the abdominal wall compliance may occur either due to involvement of abdominal wall or may be affected by the changes in the thoracic cavity. Few of the factors which may be associated with an altered abdominal compliance and hence may affect the IAP include: ventilatory asynchrony, use of PEEP, pneumoperitoneum, abdominal scar and burn eschar limiting abdominal expansion, prone positioning and presence of abdominal belt. b. Abdominal volume:…

HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus, a serious virus that spreads through the body and attacks the immune system. The virus specifically attacks the T cells (CD4 cells) of the body. This making it so the immune system is no longer able to fight off infections and diseases as the amount of T cells decreases to an amount below the average 700 to 1500 cells/mm. (Center for Disease Control, 2015, para. 1) Once the body loses so many T cells and damages the immune system so much, the HIV…

Colloids and Crystalloids on fluid resuscitation during hypovolemic shock John Tristan Pahuyo, Staff Nurse ACCU-Barts Heart Centre Hypovolemia is generally defined as having a significant amount of blood volume loss. Shock, on the other hand, is a medical emergency characterized by inadequate blood flow to organs and tissues thus reducing oxygen delivery that leads to organ dysfunction. Hypovolemic shock is described as a loss of greater than 15% of the intravascular volume. It is caused by an…

Nurses, as well as scientists, apply their understanding of pathophysiology every day and every time they come in contact with a patient or a disease. According to WiseGeek (2015), an informative online publication, pathophysiology is defined as the study of functional changes in the body that occur in response to a disease or injury ("What Is Pathophysiology?," n.d.). By possessing a deep understanding of disease progression and manifestation, medical professionals and the scientific community,…

Ocean acidification can be defined as the change in ocean chemistry driven by the oceanic uptake of chemical inputs to the atmosphere, including carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds (Guinotte and Fabry, p.320). Today, the overwhelming cause of ocean acidification is anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide. Over the past two-hundred years, the rapid increase in anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide has directly led to decreasing ocean pH through air-sea gas exchange, driven by the land-use…