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Unit 8 Fluid and Electrolyte Balance Assignment and business assignment help Start Assignment Follow all instructions and guidelines for submitting assignments. 1. Identify the body’s main fluid com... partments and explain the importance of water in the body. 2. Identify the six ions most important to the function of the body. 3. Define buffer and discuss the role of buffers in the body. 4. Explain why bicarbonate must be conserved rather than reabsorbed in the kidney. 5. Identify the normal range of blood pH and name the conditions where one has a blood pH that is either too high or too low. 6. Provide specific examples to demonstrate how the urinary system responds to maintain homeostasis in the body. 7. Explain how the urinary system relates to other body systems in maintaining homeostasis. 8. Predict the types of problems that would occur in the body if the urinary system could not maintain homeostasis. 9. Contrast the composition of the intracellular fluid with that of the extracellular fluid. 10. Explain the importance of protein channels in the movement of solutes. 11. Identify the causes and symptoms of edema. 12. Explain how water levels in the body influence the thirst cycle and what role would the hypothalamus have in thirst mechanisms. 13. Identify the main routes by which water leaves the body. 14. Describe the role of ADH and its effect on body water levels. 15. Define dehydration and identify common causes of dehydration. 16. List and provide the function of the six most important electrolytes in the body, and name the disorders associated with abnormally high and low levels of the six electrolytes 17. Describe the role of aldosterone on the level of water in the body 18. Identify the most powerful buffer system in the body, provide the equation to show how this buffer is reversible. 19. Explain the way in which the respiratory system affects blood pH 20. Identify the three blood variables considered when making a diagnosis of acidosis or alkalosis, what are the sources of compensation for blood pH problem of a respiratory origin and of a metabolic/renal origin? [Show More]

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