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Describe volatile acids

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Can be excreted by respiration

Ex. CO2

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Describe fixed acids

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Cant be excreted by respiration

Ex. Lactic acid

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Describe the normal arterial blood pH

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-Slightly basic because the slight H+ deficit leaves room to neutralize the biproducts od metabolic reaction

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What is more common, acidosis or alkalosis?

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Acidosis

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Describe respiratory acidosis

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  • When you retain CO2 (volatile acid)

- Happens when you are not able to ventilate

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Describe respiratory alkalosis

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  • Hyperventilation (decreased CO2 in the blood)

- Treatment is to regulate breathing (paper bag)

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Describe metabolic acidosis

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  • Most common
  • low pH
  • Increased acidity in blood due to fixed acids
  • pH less than 7.5
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Examples of metabolic acidosis

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  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Lactic acidosis
  • Shock patients
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Describe metabolic alkalosis

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  • Not common
  • Severe vomiting
  • Antacids
  • Body depresses respiration cause you want to retain CO2
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Describe the buffer system

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  • First defense against excess acid

- Quickly acts to restrain a change in pH

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How is hemoglobin buffered

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Hydrogen in blood cells

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How are most body cells buffered?

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Cellular proteins

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What is the equation for bicarbonate

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H + HCO3 -> H2CO3 -> CO2 + H2O

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What organ secretes the majority of acids

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The kidney

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What generates new bicarbonate molecules to replenish the stock?

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Kidney

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What gets rid of excess CO2

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Lungs

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Active process associated with inflammation or increased metabolic activity

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Hyperemia

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Characteristics of hyperemia

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  • Physiological response
  • Due to increased functional demand
  • Can be due to hormonal influence
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Examples of hyperemia

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  • Hot flashes
  • Fever
  • Sunburn
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Passive hyperemia process associated with impaired venous flow due to hydrostatic forces

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Congestion

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What sort of blood is characteristic of congestion?

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Poorly oxygenated dark blood

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What causes pulmonary congestion?

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  • Heart failure

- Ascites (from the hepatic portal veins)

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What is an example of local congestion

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Venous obstruction of a limb

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Where is chronic passive congestion common?

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-In the liver due to right heart failure

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This is the activity of the blood vessel endothelium, platelets, and plasma coagulation
Hemostasis
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What are the goals of hemostasis
- Keep blood in a fluid clot free state - Form a clot to stop the bleeding at the site of vascular injury - Balance pro and anticlotting forces
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What is the normal hemostatic reaction?
- Vascular disruption - Temporary constrict blood vessels and vasodilate - Blood gets exposed to tissue factors and causes platelets to become sticky - Platelets adhere to the edges of the wound and become a thrombotic plug - Blood that is exposed to the tissues help form a permanent plug
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What is the first element of the coagulation process?
Endothelial Cells
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What do endothelial cells have that help maintain balance of the pro and anticlotting forces
-Antithrombotic and anticoagulant activity
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What is the 2nd element of the coagulation process?
Platelets
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Where do platelets originate from?
Megakaryocytes
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What are the 2 main functions of platelets?
- Form the thrombotic plug and attract more platelets | - Initiate the clotting cascade
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What is the 3rd element of the coagulation cascade?
Coagulation
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When does coagulation start?
-When plasma or platelets come in contact with something unfamiliar
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What does coagulation cause?
-Fibrinogen (Factor 1) to become fibrin and form a gel like substance that plugs the hole
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What are the 2 pathways of the coagulation cascade?
- Extrinsic Coagulation Pathway | - Intrinsic Coagulation Pathway
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Describe the extrinsic pathway
Starts when the coagulation factor 2 comes in contact with tissue factor in extravascular tissue -Operates in clinical circumstances
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Describe the intrinsic pathway
- Initiated when factor 7 comes in contact with a foreign surface - Ex. When blood comes in contact with lab wear
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What pathway(s) are activated during hemostasis?
Both extrinsic and intrinsic
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This is the escape of blood from a blood vessel
Hemorrhage
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This is the smallest hemorrhage | -Usually associated with platelet disorders
Petechiae
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This is a hemorrhage less than 1 cm
Purpura
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This is a hemorrhage greater than 1 cm
Ecchymosis
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This is a large localized collection of blood
Hematuria
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What commonly causes problems with coagulation factors?
The liver- because the liver makes coagulation factors
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What are other coagulation problems due to genetics
Hemophilia- Factor 7 deficiency
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What is the most common cause of coagulation factor deficiency?
Cirrhosis
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What is usually associated with cirrhosis?
- Severe scarring | - Usually have bleeding problems due to underproduction of hepatic coagulation factors
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What is essential for the production of Factors 7, 9, 10
Vitamin K deficiency
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-This helps bond platelets
Von Willebrand Disease
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Where is von willebrand facto made?
-Made in the endothelial cells and megakaryocytes
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What are characteristics of Von Willebrands disease
- Spontaneous bleeding of the mouth, nose, and mucus membranes - Lack of vWF interferers with platelet adhesion to the endothelium
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Characteristics of hemophilia
- Factor 8 deficiency - X-linked gene deficiency - Can be mild to severe
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Do people with hemophilia have a normal bleeding time and platelet count and a normal prothrombin time?
Yes
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This assess the coagulation process | -The time it takes to clot after the addition of tissue factor
Prothrombin time
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This is the time it takes the clot after the addition of the artificial surface
Partial Thromboplastin time
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This measures platelet numbers only | -Does not determine if platelets function properly
Platelet count
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This detects defective platelet function
Platelet function analysis
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The time required for a patient to stop bleeding after a skin prick
Bleeding time
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This is a collection of cellular elements of blood that only forms under pathologic conditions
Thrombosis
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Is a thrombus formed fast or slow?
Slowly
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When is a thrombosis formed?
When platelets and WBC adhere to the endothelium
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What are 3 components that lead to thrombus formation?
- Endothelial injury - Abnormal Local blood flow - Hypercoagulability
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What can happen if a thrombus gets too big
-It can occlude blood flow and cause death of downstream tissue
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This is when clotting forms without exposure to tissue
Disseminated Intravascular coagulation
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What does DIC lead to?
- Clots | - Hemorrhages
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T/F- DIC is Always secondary to another underlying condition
True
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What are examples of underlying conditions that cause DIC
- Sepsis | - Bacterial infections
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Is DIC fatal?
Usually
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What initially happens in DIC?
The body starts spontaneously clotting | -uses all the platelet and coagulation factors
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This is an intravascular object that travels in the blood stream from one place to another
Embolism
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What are examples of sources of emboli?
- Pulmonary - Systemic - Marrow Fat - Air - Amniotic fluid
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These are fragments made in the deep veins and carried into the lungs -Produce instant death
Pulmonary Thrombi
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These cling to the inner wall of a damaged heart muscle | -Travel to the lower extremity and the brain
Systemic thrombi
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This is common after a fracture or CPR
Marrow fat
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This is air bubbles in the arteriole tree
Air
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This fluid enters the maternal circulation | -Fetal debris lodges in the small vessels of the lungs
Amniotic fluid
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This is an area of ischemic necrosis
Infarct
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What are 2 types of infarcts
- Red Infarct | - White infarcts
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- When arteriole occusion occurs in dense solid tissue | - Seen in kidney, heart, and liver
White infarcts
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This is a venous or arteriole obstruction that occurs in loose spongy tissue - Seen in the lungs and liver - Have a dual blood supply
Red Infarcts
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Circulatory collapse=
Shock
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Describe shock
-A state of systemically low blood flow when cardiac output is reduced or effective blood volume is decreased
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What are the 4 types of shock?
- Hypovolumic shock - Cardiogenic shock - Obstructive Shock - Septic Shock
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Describe hypovolemic shock
* Decrease blood volume (some trauma event) * Pressure drops * Shock like status because you cant keep up cardiac output * Fluid loss (diarrhea, burns, lose hydration through the skin)
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This causes swelling and fluid movement from intracellular to extracellular - Cant maintain normal blood flow - Loss of fluid from the vascular compartment
Anaphases
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Describe cardiogenic shock
• Lose pumping power and cant maintain cardiac output
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What is a cause of cardiogenic shock?
- MI | - Heart and muscle disease
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Describe septic shock
* Seen a lot * Caused or induced by infections- causes inflammatory response * Can cause cardiogenic or hypovolemic shock * DIC (deseminated intracellular coagulation) * Decreases bp and results in hypoperfusion
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What does your body do to compensate in septic shock?
``` o Increase HR o Vasoconstriction (by angiotensin) to increase PVR o Body is going to try to retain fluids (via ADH and aldosterone) ```
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Describe obstructive shock
* Seen in paracardial tamponade- trauma patients * Obstructive force causes mechanical interference * Leads into cardiogenic- heart loses the ability to pump
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What are the 3 stages of shock
- Non-progressive - Progressive - Irreversible Shock
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Describe non-progressive shock
- Re-establish profusion - But your low BP continues - Hypoxia occurs (bc RBC cant deliver blood) - Anaerobic metabolism starts- lactic acid is produced as a byproduct - Lactic acid is a fixed acid (causes pH to go down) - Body wants to increase pH via bicarb from the kidney, and increase ventilation (get rid of CO2 which is a volatile acid)
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Describe non-progressive shock
- More severe hyperperfsion - More acidtic - More hypoperfused - More septic- in your gut - Not all progressive shock leads into DIC - You can get to a point where nothing is reversible
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Describe irreversible shock
- Heart- starving for o2 and decreases contractility - Decrease filtration/dehydration - Once your kidneys fail you cant maintain and allow for reabsorption and cant secrete bicarb - Kidney and heart

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