Renal function

ambulance and quickly arrive at the nursing home. We speak to the RN at the nurses’ station and obtain a full medical history of the patient. I notice that he had lived in the nursing home for almost 10 years and had recently been diagnosed with end stage renal failure and was going to his first dialysis appointment. As I enter the room and introduce myself I noted that the patient seemed very tired and low energy and barely acknowledged my presence as I walked into the room and spoke to him. As…

For this curriculum study, I chose third grade mathematics as my unit of study. As far as my objectives go, I would want my students to walk away from this particular section of fractions with the understanding of what a fraction is, the difference between the components of a fraction such as the numerator and denominator, knowing how to identify how many parts of a whole are shaded in, and knowing how to simplify a fraction. As far as my instructional method, I created an original prezi, which…

allowed us to construct a national income model. We used figures for 2014. UK National Income model approximations The variables we need include: • A consumption function, C = a + b(Y-T) • An import demand function, M = k + mY • Exogenous variables, representing investment, I*, exports, X*, government expenditure, G* • A tax revenue function, T = tY + T* • Equilibrium condition for Y National income in the uk In 2014 the GDP in the UK came to $2522.26 Billion. We will use this…

It is important in children’s cognitive development and with their success in school. Executive functions are used to organize and act on information. Working memory is one executive function. This skill is the ability to carry information in mind for the purpose of completing a task. Working memory is like your mental sticky note. When I was in fifth grade my classmates and I were learning how…

There are several areas in the natural world where the process of exponential decay arises from random processes. Whenever a material decays at a rate in proportion to its amount, this material represents the process of exponential decay. Exponential decay can be described using the mathematical model y=a×e^(-bx). A prominent example of naturally occurring random exponential decay is the process of radioactive decay. Some isotopes of nature are considered radioactive due to a specific…

Liver failure, caused by things such as hepatitis and cirrhosis, leads to an array of symptoms including cardiorespiratory insufficiency (hepatopulmonary syndrome; HPS) and renal failure (hepatorenal syndrome; HRS). Disregarding the cause of liver failure itself, discuss the development of both of these symptoms. Hepatopulmonary Syndrome Figure 1: Blood Flow in Normal Conditions and Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (Grace & Angus, 2013). Figure 1 (above) shows the blood flow in a normal patient (top),…

Results: At the start of the experiment, the initial flow rate was established as 20 ml min-1. This means that there is a steady flow of fluid or blood in your body (in this case, water) at a rate of 20ml min-1. In order to find the final concentration of the Eosin (2,5 mg ml-1) in the “blood” after 60 minutes a calibration curve had to be created by making up seven different solutions of eosin (11,25 μg ml-1) and water to compare it against their absorbance that was calculated in a…

In 1540, a man by the name of Lodovico Ferrari, please be aware that I don’t think his name has anything to do with the sports car, was an Italian mathematician known for discovering the solutions to quartic functions. A quartic function is a function of the form ax^4 + bx^3 +cx^2 +dx+e, where a is a nonzero, which is defined by a polynomial raised to the fourth degree, called quartic polynomial. We will probably go more in depth about these quartic polynomials soon in class. My quartic…

Have you ever looked at your math paper and questioned why do I have to make a trend line? Is making a trend line really necessary? Well, trend lines allow the user to see a more defined trend of the data. Also, the creation of a trend line allows a correlation between the two subjects to be viewed easier. Trend lines help people accurately determine future outcomes that can come in handy if there is a problem. This is possible because trend lines make it easier to find the slope intercept…

Manifest Functions/pg. 81: the intended beneficial consequences of people’s actions. Manifest functions are a common thing in the mega slum of India, while everyone has their own worries and tasks to do on a daily basis, many are still willing to do what they can not only for themselves but to help others…