Sepsis & Septic Shock Sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation due to infection. Whenever there is infection there is a reaction from host involving various responses. Systemic responses to infection: · Fever · Hypothermia · Tachypnea · Tachycardia. Sepsis DEFINITIONS There is a continuum of severity ranging...
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Endocrine Hypertension adrenal Hypertension primary hyperaldosteronism there is sodium retention ion with loss of potassium. So there is natremia and hypokalemia with hypertension. diagnosis is by serum K+ level estimation. hyperaldosteronism may be due to a tumor Iateral adrenal hyperplasia. The tumor may be removed and the hypertension curable. diseasese...
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Fluid and Electrolytes balance in patients– electrolyte balance Water is –General— · 50% of body weight in women · 60% in men Water is contained in the body in two major compartments : 1. ECF (Extra-cellular fluid) – 25% 2. ICF (Intra-cellular fluid) – 75% ECF is present in the blood...
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