Labs
Increased with polycythemia, COPD, and high altitude. Decreased with anemia and hemorrhage. Carries O2 to the tissues.
What is Hemoglobin
Decreases heart rate, blood pressure, and how hard the heart has to work.
What is a beta blocker (OLOL medications)
The force exerted by the blood against the walls of the blood vessel, adequate to create tissue perfusion during activity and rest
What is Blood Pressure
NPO
What is Nothing Per Orum/Nothing By Mouth
Polyphagia, polydipsia, and polyuria
What are the symptoms of diabetes
Normal range 0.6 -1.2. Byproduct of muscle breakdown. Cleared by the kidneys.
What is Creatinine
Medication that decreases glucose release from the liver.
What is Metformin
When administering beta blockers your pulse and systolic blood pressure need to be ____ and _____ respectively
What are pulse >60bpm and systolic blood pressure >100
AC
What is Before Meals
Decreased GFR, increased creatinine,
What are symptoms of Acute Kidney Injury or Chronic Kidney Disease
Plasma protein. Normal range 3.5 – 5.0. Holds fluid in the vascular space.
What is Albumin
Blocks the production of prostaglandins in the brain
What is acetaminophen
captopril, enalapril, lisinopril
What are ACE Inhibitors
HTN
What is Hypertension
Weakness and fatigue (most common), Muscle cramps and pain, Worsening diabetes control or polyuria, Palpitations.
What are symptoms of hypokalemia
Increased with addisons disease, oliguria, anuria, and hemolysis. Decreased with vomiting. Normal range 3.5-5.0.
What is Potassium
The principal hormone that regulates uptake of glucose from the blood into most cells (primarily muscle and fat cells, but not central nervous system cells)
What is Insulin
An irregular and often rapid heart rate that can increase your risk of strokes, heart failure and other heart-related complications
What is atrial fibrilation
TIA
What is Transient Ischemic Attack
Requires daily weights, fluid restriction, and low sodium diet to prevent further deterioration
What is CHF (Congestive Heart Failure)
A lab result indicative of a heart attack
What are increased troponin levels
reduce cholesterol biosyntesis, mainly in the liver, where they are selectively distributed, as well as to the modulation of lipid metabolism, derived from their effect of inhibition upon HMG-CoA reductase.
What are lipid lowering medications (statins)
A persistent systolic blood pressure (SBP) 140 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 90 mm Hg, or current use of antihypertensive medications
What is hypertension
CABG
What vitamin deficiency is most likely to be a long-term consequence of a full-thickness burn injury
What is Vitamin D