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Signs/symptoms of cancer - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Unexplained /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
weight loss, fever, fatigue, pain, skin changes, Obstruction,
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Hemorrhage, Anemia, Fracture, Infection, Cachexia. /| /| /| /|
Screenings for men and women and when should be done - /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Breast 20+, Cervix 21-65, Colorectal men
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& women 50+, Endometrial women at menopause, Lung if smoker
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55-74, Prostate 50+, Cancer related check up 20+.
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Dehydration Signs & Symptoms and Interventions - CORRECT /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
ANSWERS ✔✔cool dry skin, poor skin turgor, weak thready pulse.
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IV fluids or fluid orally.
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Osmosis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Movement of pure solvent
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(liquid) across membrane, moves from area of less solute
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concentration to area of greater concentration until the solutions /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
in the compartments are of equal concentration. Takes place via a
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semipermeable membrane. /|
Diffusion - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Movement of molecules from
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an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
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Passive transport is substances move back and forth across the
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membrane until evenly distributed throughout the available space /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
, Filtration - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A process that separates
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materials based on the size of their particles. /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
Active Transport - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Movement of ions or
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molecules across a cell membrane into a region of higher /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy. /| /| /| /| /| /|
Hypokalemia Signs and Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWERS /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
✔✔muscle weakness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, intestinal /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
distention decreased bowel sounds /| /| /|
decreased, deep tendon reflexes, ventricular dysrhythmias, /| /| /| /| /| /|
paresthesias weak, irregular pulse, low potassium flat t waves, /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
high heart rate low blood pressure decreased GI motility.
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Fluid Overload Signs and Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Shortness of breath, cough, elevated b/p, puffiness around the /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
eyes, edema in dependent areas; distended veins, moist breath
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sounds, crackle lungs, increased urine output.
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Hypocalcemia Signs and Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWERS /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
✔✔Diarrhea, Numbness and tingling of extremities, Muscle /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
cramps ,Tetany, Convulsions,Laryngeal spasms, Cardiac
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irritability,Positive Trousseau's and Chvostek's signs,· Low /| /| /| /| /| /|
calcium, low BP, abnormal HR, hyperactivity, numbness. Shift of
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calcium in the bones. /| /| /|
Hypernatremia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Causes an osmotic shift /| /| /| /| /| /| /| /|
of fluid from the cells to the interstitial spaces, which causes a
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cellular dehydration and interruption of normal cell processes.
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