Bicarbonate

The most intriguing patient during my time at Decatur General Hospital was a man who was admitted with rhabdomyolysis. The patient is a 68-year-old male with a significant past medical history of hip fractures, decubitus ulcers along with sepsis, alcohol abuse, acute blood loss anemia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and nicotine abuse. The patient was transferred to Decatur General Hospital Emergency Room from his previous rehabilitation center due to progressively getting weaker and…

Life of an RT A Respiratory therapist (RT) has a big role in the clinical setting. They were once called oxygen technicians in the 1940’s, but now they play a bigger part in patient care. Today’s RTs are health care professionals that aim to provide quality and evidence-based respiratory care while ensuring safety, maintaining communication, and keeping record of what goes on with their patients. The RTs must understand the respiratory and cardiovascular system in order to efficiently apply…

Grade Insurance The article I chose for my grade insurance paper is “Albuterol and Insulin therapy in hemodialysis patients. http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v38/n5/index.html. The reason I chose this article is because we have been going over potassium and action potential in class I have been extremely interested in potassium, part of this is because hyperkalemia is one of the few electrolyte imbalances we can start treatment for in a pre-hospital setting. The article was very informative and…

The advent of tissue culturing in the early 1900s has shaped modern science tremendously. Fields such as cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and many others are heavily dependent on cell culturing to carry out experiments. Cell culturing initially began when pioneering scientists sought a way to study cells outside their tissue origin. They began with tissues and then later on, techniques were developed that enabled the study of individual cells in vitro that would give rise to…

As M. tempus is an omnivore due to their monogastric digestive system, and is similar to a pigs digestive system, but with adaptations similar to that of bilbies (Thylacomyidae) due to the occasional low availability of prey and living food sources, resulting in adapted hindgut fermentation and a long digestive tract, (Tyndale-Biscoe C H 2005). Although M. tempus must ferment the consumed plant material, their gastrointestinal tracts are still incredibly different to those of foregut fermenters,…

As the amount of anthropogenic CO2 has been rising in the atmosphere, this has meant a natural rise in the levels of CO2 in the oceans. This rise can have a large effect on the natural biogeochemical cycles of the oceans. The largest effect will be seen through the acidification of the oceans. When CO2 is dissolved in seawater it increases the concentration of hydrogen ions in the ocean, which then decreases the overall pH, causing acidification. This acidification can have a detrimental effect…

Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. All things are made of Carbon. It is a part of the ocean, air and even rocks. This carbon flows between each reservoir in an exchange called the Carbon Cycle. This cycle will be investigated to show an understanding of its functions and how human activity can severely impact this cycle. (insert hypothesis here). Human activity, with out proper regulation can lead to imbalance throughout the carbon cycle meaning the interference of a Global system much…

increase the initial salivary flow rate by a factor of ten” (citation.) The most efficient time to chew gum would be about twenty minutes after a meal –around the time plaque forms (American dental Assoc.) Saliva contains remineralizing ions and bicarbonate, which can help buffer the high acidity levels caused by plaque. It’s said that chewing gum regularly is like going to the gym. Chewing helps make saliva glands larger and work better. So, overall more saliva is produced even when you are not…

the blood into the urine. Secretion allows for the amount of a particular substances to the excreted in the urine in concentrations greater than the concentration filtered from the plasma in the glomeruli. The kidneys regulate the balance between bicarbonate and carbonic acid by the secretion and exchange of hydrogen ions for sodium ions, which are used to from base. * Renal control of Cardiac…

In this paper I will attempt to examine the root causes of the Aral Sea disaster that implicate in ecological, societal, economic, and cultural environments throughout the time and space. This paper will challenge the traditional view of the Aral Sea disaster as of “natural”, but rather “crescive” and “constructed”. I will analyze the Aral sea disaster through the following lenses, first is political - harsh Soviet politics and transition to the market economy that had subsequently resulted in…