WGU PATHO D236 SECTION 1
HOMEOSTASIS EXAM 2024/2025
As Diane completes her race, what enables her body to maintain
homeostasis despite her increased activity? - Precise Answer ✔✔-
Diane's sports drink helped to replace sodium and water lost due to
sweating.
-Diane's body produces more angiotensin II, allowing her body to
constrict blood vessels and increase her blood pressure.
-Diane's kidney reabsorbs more water and sodium in response to ADH
and aldosterone.
Michael's pulmonary edema leads to respiratory acidosis.
How does pH impact Michael's basal metabolic panel? - Precise Answer
✔✔- His CO2 level is increased because his lungs have difficulty
removing it from the bloodstream.
-His K+ is elevated because, as H+ moves inside of cells in an attempt to
get it out of the bloodstream, K+ moves from cells into the bloodstream.
-His sodium level is decreased due to hypervolemia.
What differentiates type I from type II diabetes? - Precise Answer
✔✔The insulin producing cells of type I diabetics are destroyed, and
they do not produce insulin. In type II diabetics, their cells are less
responsive to insulin.
, A patient with a viral illness and severe vomiting has an elevated CO2
level and a blood pH of 7.53. She is breathing slowly.
What condition does the patient have? - Precise Answer ✔✔Metabolic
alkalosis
What happens in a dehydrated patient? - Precise Answer ✔✔ADH
levels increase and the RAAS is activated.
ACE (angiotensin converting enzymes) inhibitors are used to treat
abnormal blood pressure. They prevent the conversion of angiotensin I
to angiotensin II.
Which explains how ACE inhibitors work? - Precise Answer ✔✔The
decrease in the production of angiotensin II keeps blood vessels more
dilated. This lowers blood pressure.
In diabetic ketoacidosis, what happens to the anion gap? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Because HCO3- is consumed, the anion gap increases.
Patients with end stage renal disease are not able to maintain
homeostatic levels of potassium, and the increased level of potassium in
their bloodstream can impair cardiac function.
To remove potassium from the blood during dialysis, what should the
dialysate do? - Precise Answer ✔✔It should have a lower concentration
of potassium than that of the bloodstream.
Pressure that is due to albumin in the bloodstream? - Precise Answer
✔✔Oncotic
HOMEOSTASIS EXAM 2024/2025
As Diane completes her race, what enables her body to maintain
homeostasis despite her increased activity? - Precise Answer ✔✔-
Diane's sports drink helped to replace sodium and water lost due to
sweating.
-Diane's body produces more angiotensin II, allowing her body to
constrict blood vessels and increase her blood pressure.
-Diane's kidney reabsorbs more water and sodium in response to ADH
and aldosterone.
Michael's pulmonary edema leads to respiratory acidosis.
How does pH impact Michael's basal metabolic panel? - Precise Answer
✔✔- His CO2 level is increased because his lungs have difficulty
removing it from the bloodstream.
-His K+ is elevated because, as H+ moves inside of cells in an attempt to
get it out of the bloodstream, K+ moves from cells into the bloodstream.
-His sodium level is decreased due to hypervolemia.
What differentiates type I from type II diabetes? - Precise Answer
✔✔The insulin producing cells of type I diabetics are destroyed, and
they do not produce insulin. In type II diabetics, their cells are less
responsive to insulin.
, A patient with a viral illness and severe vomiting has an elevated CO2
level and a blood pH of 7.53. She is breathing slowly.
What condition does the patient have? - Precise Answer ✔✔Metabolic
alkalosis
What happens in a dehydrated patient? - Precise Answer ✔✔ADH
levels increase and the RAAS is activated.
ACE (angiotensin converting enzymes) inhibitors are used to treat
abnormal blood pressure. They prevent the conversion of angiotensin I
to angiotensin II.
Which explains how ACE inhibitors work? - Precise Answer ✔✔The
decrease in the production of angiotensin II keeps blood vessels more
dilated. This lowers blood pressure.
In diabetic ketoacidosis, what happens to the anion gap? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Because HCO3- is consumed, the anion gap increases.
Patients with end stage renal disease are not able to maintain
homeostatic levels of potassium, and the increased level of potassium in
their bloodstream can impair cardiac function.
To remove potassium from the blood during dialysis, what should the
dialysate do? - Precise Answer ✔✔It should have a lower concentration
of potassium than that of the bloodstream.
Pressure that is due to albumin in the bloodstream? - Precise Answer
✔✔Oncotic
