CEN Study Questions And Answers

"Adrenergic" is associated with the ______ system - Answer- Sympathetic "Cholinergic" is associated with the ______ system - Answer- Parasympathetic Activation of the RAAS system leads to...? - Answer- Increased water and sodium reabsorption (decreased UO) Beta-one receptors stimulate the...? - Answer- Heart Beta-two receptors stimulate the...? - Answer- Lungs What is hematologic factors are high in renal failure? - Answer- The 3 Ps! Potassium Phosphorous Positive Ions (Acidosis) (Sodium and calcium are low) Potassium is closely related with what electrolyte? - Answer- Mg Magnesium is closely related with what electrolyte? - Answer- K+ Calcium is inversely related to? - Answer- Phosphate and potassium Phosphate is inversely related to? closely related to? - Answer- Inverse: Calcium Direct: Potassium What medication do we never give in thyroid storm? - Answer- ASA What are the s/s of hyponatremia? - Answer- swelling, confusion, apathy, sense of doom, *muscle cramps* What are we worried about when correcting hyponatremia? - Answer- Correcting sodium too rapidly can cause central pontine myelinolysis (flaccid paralysis, dysarthria, dysphagia, hypotension) What are the s/s of hypernatremia? - Answer- AMS (fatigue, lethargy, confusion, coma), weakness, diarrhea (think of how you feel after eating McDonalds^^^) What are the early s/s of hyperkalemia? - Answer- muscular excitability, irritability, N/V/D