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What factors regulate total body sodium?

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Aldosterone

ANP

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What factor alters [Na+]?

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ADH

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What is the difference between total body sodium and sodium concentration?

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Total body sodium means that there is an increased amount of sodium located in the body. Usually this means there is also an increase in the amount of water in the body, so the sodium concentration does not change.

Sodium concentration refers to the ratio of sodium to water.

Aldosterone regulates the total number of sodium cells. ADH causes serum concentration by decreasing the amount of water, thereby increasing the Na concentration.

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What regulates total body potassium?

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Aldosterone

Intrinsic renal mechanisms

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What regulates [K]?

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Insulin

Epinephrine

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What regulates total body Ca?

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Vit D and PTH

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What regulates [Ca]?

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Vit D and PTH

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How are Mag and Phos regulated?

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Both total body and serum concentrations are regulated by intrinsic renal methods

with minimal input from PTH

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the blood–brain barrier is poorly permeable to _______ but freely permeable to _______

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Sodium

Water

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How is serum osmolality determined?

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2 x serum sodium + serum glucose + serum urea

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A patient has a normal [Na] but an elevated serum osmolality. What is a likely explanation?

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Increased glucose or BUN

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What is the name of the vasopressin mediated water channel in the distal tubule?

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Aquaporin 2

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What can result from increasing serum Na too quickly?

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Central Pontine Myelinolysis

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How quickly should serum sodium be increased?

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< 12 mEq/L/day

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Carcinoid Syndrome

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When a carcinoid tumore metastasizes to the liver and secretes its hormone into the portal vein and general circulation

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What is the most common hormone carcinoids secrete?

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Serotonin

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Clinical manifestations of carcinoid syndrome

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Flushing

Intestinal Motility (diarrhea)

R sided heart issues (TRegurg, pulm stenosis)

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What are the components of TBW (Total Body Water)?

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ICV (40% of total body weight)

ECV (20% total body weight)

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What are the components of ECV (extracellular volume)?

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Plasma (3L, 1/5 of of ECV)

Remainder is IFV (interstitial fluid volume)

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Red cell volume contributes to ICV or ECV?

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ICV!

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Why is the brain so sensitive to changes in sodium?

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The blood brain barrier is completely impermeable to sodium, so sodium levels directly influence fluid movement in and out of the cerebral circulation

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Compare and contrast the effects of hypertonic saline and mannitol

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Both cause a decrease in brain water

3% saline causes increased intravascular volume

mannitol causes diuresis, leading to decreased intravascular volume

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Is mild hypovolemia associated with metabolic alkalosis or acidosis?

What about severe hypovolemia

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Mild: alkalosis

Severe: Acidosis

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How is sodium plasma concentration effected by glucose levels?

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Glucose holds water within the extracellular space, cause dilutional hyponatremia

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Why does serum hyponatremia with a normal serum os occur in renal failure?
Because BUN is distributed in the ECV and ICV
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What is the cornerstone of SIADH treatment
Freewater restriction Elimination of precipitating cause
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What is the difference between cerebral salt wasting and SIADH?
in cerebral salt wasting, ADH secretion is normal and is treated with steroids
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What is the difference between aldosterone and ADH?
Both cause water retention BUT aldosterone does it by increasing sodium and decreasing potassium/Hydrogen (maintain electrical charge) ADH does it by acting directly on aqauporins to retain water
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What is normal intracellular K concentration
150
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Acute _____ kalemia hyperpolarizes cell membrane
Hypokalemia, because the electrical gradient is suddenly widened between the intra and extra cellular spaces This is why cardiac cells are more irritable, and why arteries have hypertension
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Both metabolic and respiratory alkalosis lead to \_\_\_\_\_kalemia
hypokalemia REMEMBER emia refers to the blood hypokalemia means the amount of potassium in the blood, not the body
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What are ECG changes associated with HYPOkalemia
flat or inverted T waves, prominent U waves, and ST segment depression Ectopy
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For a patient with DKA who has hypokalemia and is acidotic, when should potassium be repleted?
Before the correction of the acidosis BECAUSE Potassium is going to start moving back into cells and drop off precipitously once pH is controlled
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what does insulin administration decrease potassium levels?
Activates the Na-K ATPase pump, moving K into the cell
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Why do B adrenergics like albuterol help lower potassium?
Increases uptake of potassium in skeletal muscle cells
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What is the ECV:ICV ratio of CA
10,000 to 1
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Acidemia _____ Ca Alkalosis _____ Ca
increases decreases
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What causes hypocalcemia?
Failed PTH or calcitriol Calcium chelation or precipitation
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What is the hallmark symptom of hypocalcemia?
increased neuronal membrane irritability and tetany
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\_\_\_\_ in Magnesium and _____ in phosphate lower calcium levels
Decrease, increase
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What is the rule of 10's for emergency calcium administration
10ml of 10% over 10 minutes
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What is the effect of calcium on digitalis?
Makes it more toxic Be careful giving calcium to patients who are on dig
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Why is total serum calcium a poor indicator of calcium status if albumin is low?
A significant amount of circulating calcium is bound to albumin, but the not the functional calcium. So if your albumin is low it will decrease your total calcium content, but it doesn't effect your ionized calcium
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What causes hypercalcemia?
Bone resorption
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what is the first line drug treatment for hypercalcemia
biphosphonates
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What is the second line treatment for hypercalcemia
Calcitonin Fast acting, but doesn't work in about 25% of people More effective if given with glucocorticoids
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What is net filtration pressure?
The sum effect of all the intra and extra capillary pressures
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Positive net filtration favors fluid \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
exudation into tissues
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Negative net filtration favors \_\_\_\_\_\_
Fluid reabsorption into vasculature
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Venous capillary net filtration is \_\_\_\_\_\_ Arterial capillary net filtration is \_\_\_\_\_\_
Negative Positive
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How does the glycocalyx regulate osmotic pressure?
Binds with circulating albumin!
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What is the preferred fluid for patients at risk for cerebral edema?
NS, slightly hyperosmolar
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Which patients should not get LR?
DKA (lactate breakdown in the liver produces glucose) TBI (mildly hypotonic, can cause cerebral edema)
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What are some of the benefits of plasmalyte?
Buffered (preserves physiologic pH) Doesn't contain calcium Doesn't use lactate as buffer
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What disease process causes specific damage to the glycocalyx?
hyperglycemia
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What do DO2 and VO2 represent?
Oxygen delivery Oxygen consumption
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What is primary hemostasis?
Platelets adhere to sites of endothelial disruption, undergo activation to recruit more platelets and amplify the platelet response, and then cross-link with fibrin, the end product of the plasma clotting factor cascade, to form a platelet plug.
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What happens when the endothelial lining (glycocalyx) is disrupted?
Platelets adhere to the collagen in the broken matrix
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Does anemia increase or decrease platelet function?
decreases
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How much should hemoglobin and Hct increase for each unit of PRBCs?
1 g/dl 3%
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What types of patients benefit from maintaining platelet count \> 50?
Eye surgeries, polytrauma
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What is alloimmunization?
Exposure to a foreign antigen, initial exposure doesn't prompt a reaction but the second does Rh and second pregnancy Multiple blood transfusions, especially platelets
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What is the leading cause of transfusion associated mortality?
TRALI
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What is Post Transfusion Purpura?
Rare, severe thrombocytopenia after transfusion Almost always in previously pregnant women Destroys platelets IVIG is first line of defense
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What is the most common hereditary bleeding disorder?
vWD (von Willenbrand)
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vWD is an disorder of _______ hemostasis
Primary
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How is hemophilia inherited?
X linked, almost entirely affects males
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Hemophilia A is a defect in which clotting factor?
VIII (8)
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List two forms of hereditary hypercoagulopathy
1. FVL mutation 2. Protein C and S deficiencies Both act on factor V
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What are the leading causes of Vit K deficiency
Liver insufficiency Sterile gut in newborns ABX treatment
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How is Vit K synthesized?
Bacteria in the gut Bile salts in the liver
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Which coagulation factors are produced by the liver
2 5 7 9 10 11
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Is a PT or aPTT acute in chronic renal failure?
NO
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DIC is consumptive _____ and \_\_\_\_\_\_
coagulopathy and thrombocytopenia
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What is the treatment for coagulopathy in DIC? For thrombocytopenia?
Plasma Platelets
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GP IIb/IIIa receptor blockers
epciximab tirofibin, eptifibitide inhibit the cross linkage of fibrin
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Vitamin K Antagonists
Warfarin inhibit synthesis of Vit K dependent factors
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ADP Receptor Antagonists
prevent the expression of GP IIb/IIIa on the surface of activated platelets, thereby inhibiting platelet adhesion and aggregation clopidogrel, ticagrelor
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Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors
Apirin and NSAIDs
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What is the role of COX-1?
plays an integral part in maintaining the integrity of the gastric lining, renal blood flow, and initiating the formation of TxA2, an important molecule for platelet aggregation.
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what are the key characteristics of HIT?
Thrombocytopenia, but increased coaguability
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What is the treatment for HIT?
D/C Heparin Start thrombophylaxis Exclude thrombosis DON'T GIVE PLATELETS
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Parenteral Direct Thrombin Inhibitors
Argatroban, Bivalirudin
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rFVIIIa
Recombinant factor 8a Designed for hemophiliacs, but used in postpartum hemorrhage, trauma, reversal of various anticoagulants, and high-risk cardiac surgery.
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Why is DDAVP used in bleeding disorders?
improves hemostasis and platelet function
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Antifibrinolytics
TXA derivatives of lysine competitively inhibit the binding site on plasminogen, preventing cleavage to plasmin and the resultant fibrinolysis
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What blood type is a universal recipient? Why?
AB Have A and B antigens Do not have A or B antibodies
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What blood type is universal donor? Why?
Do no have antigens Have anti-bodies to A and B
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Why does distal renal tubular acidosis hypokalemia?
Major water/sodium loss is caused by dRTA, so aldosterone is synthesized and decreases K levels
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If sodium is low and the serum os is high or normal, what does that mean?
Some other substance (mannitol, glucose, BUN, ethanol etc.) is in the PV pulling water into the capillaries. Total body sodium is normal, but the capillaries are overfilled so the low Na is dilutional
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If sodium is low and serum osmolality is low, what should you check next?
Urine osmolality and urine sodium
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What are the top two diseases associated with SIADH?
Small cell lung CA Brain problems
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How does plasma [Na+] related to total body sodium?
It doesn't! Sodium concentration measures fluid status, not the amount of sodium in the body
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What is the most common cause of hyperkalemia?
Drugs! NSAIDS, ACE inhibitors, cyclosporines
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Which two types of acidosis cause shifts in K? Which two do not?
Respiratory and Mineral Metabolic Acidosis Organic metabolic acidosis (lactic acidosis, ketoacidosis)
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What are three methods for shifting K intracellularly?
glucose and insulin bicarb Albuterol (B2 agonists)
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If phosphate is high, Ca is \_\_\_\_\_
Low
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Magnesium is an endogenous _______ and stabilizes \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
calcium antagonist axonal membranes Competes with Ca for binding sites in pres-synaptic terminals, meaning it requires more Ca to cause depolarization
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Hypomagnesemia is characterized by:
increased neuronal excitability, muscle irritability and tetany
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Of all the isotonic crystalloids, NS is the least \_\_\_\_\_\_. Why?
Physiologic. Contains proportionally more Cl
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What is the primary role of NS in anesthesia?
given in small volumes for neuro patients
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NS is the preferred fluid for which patient?
those at risk for cerebral edema
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Why is NS sometimes the only option for patients in ESRD?
They can't tolerate the K level of other isotonics
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When is LR contraindicated? Why?
TBI Neurovascular insults Slightly hypo-osmolar
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A patient with a BG of 220 should probably not receive \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Colloids Hyperglycemia is known to injure the endothelial glycocalyx

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