Mary Beth plumber calls the medical clinic where you are employed to make an appointment for her 80-year-old husband Jim. Jim has been complaining of shortness of breath and fatigue Mary Beth has noticed prominent pulsations in the artery in his neck she also reports that his ankles tend to swell.

1. How soon will you set the requested appointment? identify the reason.
2. Is age a factor in Jim's condition explain
3. what dietary restrictions if any might be recommended for Jim

Paraquat is one of the more interesting pulmonary toxicants, in part because it doesn’t have to be inhaled to produce severe lung injury.

Explain the mechanism of paraquat toxicity, including the role of metabolism and reactive oxygen species.

Describe the clinical signs and symptoms of paraquat poisoning.

Explain why the lung is a target organ for paraquat even if the route of exposure is ingestion.

Mr. Heyden, 72, is brought to the emergency room after an accident at his farm. The paramedics report that his left side was pinned beneath his tractor, and that when he was freed, his left lower quadrant appeared to be compressed. His blood pressure is 90/50 mm Hg and falling, and his heart rate is 116 beats/min. His pulse is thready. Mr. Heyden complains of pain in his left side and then loses consciousness.

1. Mr. Heyden's low blood pressure will trigger certain compensatory mechanisms. Which statement below best reflects the changes in hormone levels that will occur?

2. Mr. Heyden's blood K+ levels are high. Which of the following best explains his high K+ levels?

Describe in detail the action of insulin. Be sure to include a description of what it is (what kind of biomolecule/class of hormone), how its secretion is regulated, where specifically it is secreted from, its general effects on body cells, and finally each of its specific effects (if it has any) on: skeletal muscle, the liver, adipose tissue, and blood glucose levels.

The dentist asks you to make provisional crown for teeth #8 and #9. Your choice of coverage the polycarbonate crown. Because the teeth involved are the maxillary centrals, what are your concerns regarding these provisional crowns?

Kate, age 57 years, is experiencing severe rheumatoid arthritis in her wrists, fingers, and knees. The joints are quite inflamed, red, and swollen. She is sitting rigidly in a chair and refuses to put on a sweater, even though she is shivering, or let anyone touch her arms. She has been prescribed an analgesic and an anti-inflammatory drug, but her dose is not due for another hour. She is feeling nauseated, so she has not eaten for the past 8 hours.

Discuss the potential treatment strategies and medications involved to relieve the pain being experienced by the patient. Explain the complications of continued use of over the counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) medications. What other medications are appropriate for this patient, and why?

Describe the factors that affect cardiac output in a female athlete who is speed skating toward the finish line in an Olympic race.

Diagram and describe the removal of CO2 from working tissues and release to the environment.

How Drugs Impacts our brain and body

Our bodies, as the great machine ever constructed, gets damage by the misuse of substance, that is call damaging addictions. The addiction is the cause for the destruction of this amazing machine that starts when we force it to react in the way that is not supposed to work. Everything starts in our brain: When dopamine is diminished due to the mistreatment of our brain instruments (opium receptors, neurons, etc…) that controls the release of this very important substance, that tell us “this feels good”. One will uncontrollably became obsess with an unreal “survival” mode, that is call addiction. Drugs can accelerate dopamine into our body in an irregular speed making our brain violently abused and in consequence damage.

Our body will also suffer due to the injury of the brain. If the brain is mistreated will make us feel unmotivated to do or act in a healthy way affecting the health of our body too. The mistreatment of our brain and body creates the environment of the addict. The addict, nonstop, will not comprehend how or why, the nail on their head like the short video that we saw last class, makes them feel unmotivated to create a healthy life for themselves or anyone around them.

Taking a red blood cell from X-Y includes vessels, chambers and valves of heart.

1) heart to capillary bed of right thumb and back to the heart (presume LV to RA)

2) left pulmonary vein to right great toe

3) superior mesenteric artery to the inferior vena cava

4) from the heart to the brain and back to the heart (presume LV to RA)

Discuss the concept of an “upper motor neuron” vs a “lower motor neuron”. List all the neurons and their motor system pathways that might be considered upper motor neurons. Describe the consequences of a lesion to an upper motor neuron and a lower motor neuron. This answer should address issues of muscle tone, reflexes, and any other characteristics that help to differentiate between upper and lower motor neuron lesions. Give some common examples (i.e. diseases, dysfunctions, trauma) when these respective lesions would occur. What is the prognosis for recovery from UMN and LMN lesions. What are the differences between spasticity, rigidity, decerebrate rigidity and decorticate rigidity?

When thinking of the cell and all of its component organelles, can you compare anything in society that simulates the cell and it's inner workings?

Dieting is common in our society and everyone wants a piece of the action. So many diets are available to choose from if someone wants to change their health; e.g., lose weight. Often times, diets are promoted with claims of great success.

Choose a particular diet and analyze it in terms of scientific evidence, or lack thereof. Then, design a controlled experiment to test a hypothesis based on this diet. The experiment must include multiple individuals within a control and experimental group. Specify how you will measure the outcome of the experiment identifying both the independent and dependent variables. Describe the potential outcomes of the experiment in terms of supporting the hypothesis.