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What does a high pH

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Kidney failure,
Medication
Vomiting
Urinary Tract Infection

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What does a smoky-red color of urine indicates?

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It indicates the presence of red blood cells.

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Where are AV valves best heard?

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Best heard in the 5th intercostal space

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How does the blood get transported through the heart?

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Along pressure gradient, from high pressure gradient to low pressure gradient.

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What is the S1 sound?

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The sound that occurs during the early phase of ventricular contraction produced by closing of the atrioventricular valves

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What is the septum:

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Is the site of tissue bundles responsible for carrying the depolarization of the hear to the muscle fibers in the apex of the heart.

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Where are semilunar valves best heard?

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in the 2nd intercostal spaces on each side of the sternum

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Where does filtration occurs?

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In the kidney corpuscle, occurs when blood is transported in the glomerular capillaries.

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Why does systolic pressure increases more than dyastolic during exercise?

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Due to rapid left ventricular contraction.

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What happens if the intrapulmonary pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure?

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Air flows in the lungs

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What does a low pH indicates?

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Diabetes
Diarrhea
Starvation

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What does a fruity odor of urine indicates?

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The presence of ketones that results from diabetes, starvation or alcohol intoxication

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Describe expiration:

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Diaphragm and external intercostals relax and elastic recoil from elastic tissue of the lungs and chest cavity wall (generally passive process)

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What is a cardiac cycle?

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Refers to the events that occur during one heart beat

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Describe the YMCA Cycle Ergometer Test:

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Uses 3 or more consecutive 3 minute workloads designed to raise HR to between 110 and 85% of the age-predicted HR max for two consecutive workloads.

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Describe spirometry:

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Requires participant to take the deepest breath
they can, and forcefully expire all air from their
lungs

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Describe aVR_

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The positive electrode is on the right arm and the left arm and left leg electrodes form the negative electrode.

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What are other factors that affect alveolar gas exchange?

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Total number of alveoli
Thickness of respiratory membrane
Solubility coefficient of the particular gasses

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What does a pale, dilute urine indicates?

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Drinking of large volumes of liquid

Diabetes

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What is the inspiratory reserve module?

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The additional air that is possible to breath after normal inspiration, a measure of lung compliance.

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What do bipolar leads measure?

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The potential difference between positive recording electrode and a negative recording electrode

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Describe inspiration:

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Diaphragm and external intercostals

contract (it is an active process) resulting in increased thoracic volume, decreased intrapulmonary pressure.

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What does the blood gas analyzer measures ?

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Oxygen concentration, carbon dioxide, bicarbonate

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What is respiration?

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movement of both oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) between atmosphere and the body tissues.

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Describe aVL:
The positive electrode is on the left arm and the electrode on the right arm and the left foot are the negative electrodes.
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What is reabsporption?
The movement of substances back into blood.
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What is the average pH of urine?
6.0 but can range from 4.6 to 8.0
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What is Functional Residual Capacity?
ERV+RV: Amount of air normally left in the lungs
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What is Vital Capacity?
TV+IRV+ERV: total strength of respiration.
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What are the three events or waveforms?
1) Atrial depolarization which produces P wave 2) Atrial repolarization and the ventricular depolarization that produce the QRS complex 3) Ventricular repolarization
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What is alveolar gas exchange?
Process by which oxygen is exchanged between air in the alveoli and blood in the pulmonary capillaries.
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What is kidney main function in the body?
To produce urine and filtrate blood.
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What are the four major processes in respiration?
Pulmonary ventilation Alveolar gas exchange Gas transport Systemic gas exchange
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What is residual volume?
Amount of air that remains in the lung after a forced expiration.
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What is End Diastolic Volume:
blood remaining in the ventricles at the end of | filling
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What are examples of VO2max
maximal oxygen consumption, maximal oxygen uptake, peak oxygen uptake, or maximal aerobic capacity.
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How does blood pH influence hemoglobin affinity?
If pH is lower than 7.4 than hemoglobin has difficulty binding to oyxgen.
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What is the S2 sound?
Occurs when ventricle relax and is produced by the closing of the semilunar valves.
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What are the three manin processes performed by the nephron?
1) Filtration 2) Reabsorption 3) Secretion
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What is the role of the respiration center in the medulla?
Insures that gaseous exhange at the lung matches the requirements of the body.
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Describe aVF:
The positive electrode is on the left leg and the right and left arm electrodes are form a composite negative electrode.
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What does specific gravity measures?
The concentration of urine ranging from 1.0006 to 1.035.
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What is secretion?
Transport of the substances from the blood into the filtrate.
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What are the trhee phases of Cardiac Action Potential
1) Depolarization 2) Plateu depolarization 3) Repolarization
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What is gas transport?
Process of moving the gasses through the cardiovascular system.
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What is Stroke volume (SV):
volume of blood ejected with each beat; represented by EDV - ESV
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What are three reasons why arterial PO2 remains constant during exercise
- Increased alveolar ventilation - Increased pulmonary blood flow - Oxygen diffusion capacity.
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What is the general duration of a cardiac cycle?
0.7-0.8 which correspond to 75-85 bpm.
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Why does HR rate increase?
Because of a reduction of parasympathetic activity to sinoatrial node and increase in sympathetic.
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What is End systolic volume (ESV):
Volume of blood remaining in ventricles after | contraction
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What is arterial pressure?
The product of Cardiac Output and Peripheral Resistance
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What is auscultation?
The technique of listening to heart and vessels sounds.
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What is the tidal volume?
The amount of air that moves in or out of the lungs during any one breathing cycle.
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What does dark, concentrated urine indicates?
Dehydration | Fever
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What is a filtrate?
A fluid entering the surrounding capsular space
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What does a high specific gravity causes?
Precipitation of solutes and formation of kidney stones.
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What cause the QRS complex?
The return of the muscle fibers to their resting membrane potential. Summation of action potential in the muscle fibers in the ventricles.
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What does happen when Ventricular pressures that exceed atrial pressure?
AV valves closes. Also opens cusps aortic/pulmonary valve when pressure builds past a threshold. Ventricle contraction pushes blood to pulmonary or systemic circuits
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How are positions or combinations of positions to record ECG?
Leads or views.
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Where does exchange of O2 and CO2 at the lungs takes place?
At the pulmonary capillaries.
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When is VO2max reached?
when steady state of oxygen consumption is observed, even with increasing workload
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What is pulmonary ventilation?
Process where air moves between the atmosphere an alveoli
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What is Cardiac Output:
is the stroke volume multiplied by heart rate.
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What is inspiratory capacity?
TV+IRV: Maximal capacity to inspire
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What is Expiratory Reserve Volume?
The amount of air expelled from the lungs during a forced expiration, a measure of lung and chest wall elasticity.
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What does happen when atrial pressure exceeding ventricular pressure?
AV valve opens, allowing blood to fill ventricles Atrial contraction pushes any remaining blood to ventricle
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What do augmented limb leads (unipolar) measure?
The potential difference between signal recording electrode and a combination of other electrodes that form a composite negative electrode.
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What is the function of the step ergometere in the mCAFT
To increase HR
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What are the 4 cause of increased venous return during exercise?
a) increased pumping of venous blood by contracting exercise muscle, b) increased negative thoracic pressure from greater depth/freq. of inspiration, c) increased venoconstriction from increased sympathetic nervous system tone, and d) increased blood from through dilated skeletal muscle arterioles into veins
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What does a foul odor of urine indicates?
The presence of bacteria
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What is the P wave?
The summation of the action potentials from the muscle fibers in the atria.

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