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IPTA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happens if your pH is off | either way will affect the nervous system could cause convulsion or coma |
| Leukocytosis presentation | Fever, malaise, lethargy, dizziness, bleeding, bruising, painful inflamed joints |
| Leukopenia presentation | Anemia, headache, shortness of breath, sore mouth, skin abscesses |
| Thrombocytosis presentation | Weakness, headache, dizziness, chest pain, tingling of hands/feet |
| Thrombocytopenia presentation | Petechia, ecchymosis, fatigue, jaundice, risk for bleeding |
| High hemoglobin presentation | Orthostasis, presyncope, dizziness, arrythmias |
| Low hemoglobin presentation | decreased endurance, decreased activity tolerance, pallor, tachycardia |
| High hematocrit presentation | Fever, headache, dizziness, weakness, fatigue, easy bruising or bleeding |
| Low hematocrit presentation | Pallor, headache, dizziness, cold hands/feet, chest pain, arrhythmia, shortness of breath |
| Hyperglycemia presentation | diabetic ketoacidosis, severe fatigue |
| Hypoglycemia presentation | lethargy, irritability, shaking, extremity weakness, loss of consciousness |
| High troponin | likely MI or some other heart damage |
| Low troponin | healing or healthy heart |
| Hypernatremia presentation | irritability, agitation, seizure, coma, hypertension, tachycardia, decreased urinary output |
| Hyponatremia presentation | headache, lethargic, decreased reflexes, nausea and vomiting, seizure, coma, orthostatic hypotension, pitting edema |
| Hyperkalemia presentation | muscle weakness, paresthesia, bradycardia, heart block, ventricular fibrillation, cardiac arrest |
| Hypokalemia presentation | extremity weakness, decreased reflexes, paresthesia, leg cramps, cardiac arrest, hypotension, constipation |
| Hypercalcemia presentation | cardiac symptoms, lethargy, muscle weakness, nausea and vomiting, decreased reflexes |
| Hypocalcemia presentation | confusion, agitation, seizure, fatigue, numbness/tingling, increased reflexes |