Your patient has right sided heart failure. What symptoms do you need to assess for??
Edema, weight gain, bounding jugular veins, headache, lethargy, nocturia
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What causes ovulation to occur in women?
an increase in luteinizing hormone
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What is cretinism?
Hypofunction of the thyroid
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What are the common symptoms of benign prostatic hypertrophy or prostate cancer?
hesitancy of urine flow, decreased force of flow, frequent urination, low urine output, urine retention, dribbling of urine
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Demyelination of the myelin sheath of nerves causes which of the following?
Multiple sclerosis
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The nurse draws a blood sample on an anxious patient that is hyperventilating. The arterial blood gas will most likely show:
respiratory alkalosis
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Vitamin K affects the body's ability to do what?
Clot blood due to the prothrombin and fibrinogen levels
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Name at least 2 of the classic signs and symptoms of inflammation?
Redness, swelling, warmth, pain (cased by vascular permeability)
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Your patient has edema in his legs. He has a history of liver failure, and as a result has a decreased capacity to produce proteins such as albumin. The edema is
Decreased oncotic pressure in the capillary
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Bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease causes what symptoms?
slowness of movement, shuffling gait, dragging of feet, and freezing.
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Your epileptic patient notices a strange familiar smell before having a seizure. This is called an