NSG 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oral Mucosa, Nasal Hair, Vascular Permeability
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Home (educational topic- water heaters should be set at 120 degree f or less: patho: after a burn, many changes occur. Well, the main reason is because of increased capillary permeability. To tell our body/kidneys to retain na+ and h2o with aldosterone and retain h2o with adh therefore, the blood volume will go up: airway injury-most common airway injury is from carbon monoxide poisoning, normally o2 binds with hgb. The client may have to be intubated by physician- most swelling post burn injury happen within that first 24 hours (remember, this is when fluid shifting is happening=edema: a client is burned over 40% of their body. Surface area a common formula called the rule of nines (done at least 2 times) is used we will go over this formula and the palm method in class. Therefore, which acid-base imbalance will they have respiratory acidosis: albumin---you know that albumin holds onto fluid in the vascular space.
