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schs14

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Your middle-aged client has slouched shoulders, very prominent vertebral bones, and an abnormal condition of the vertebral column characterized by increased convexity in the thoracic spine when viewed from the side. From what is your client suffering?
 
  1. scoliosis
  2. muscular dystrophy
  3. Parkinson's disease
  4. kyphosis

Question 2

A client is brought to the emergency department after passing out in a local department store. The client reports having dieted by fasting for the last 5 days. Which acidbase imbalance would the nurse expect to assess in this client?
 
  1. Respiratory acidosis
   2. Respiratory alkalosis
   3. Metabolic acidosis
   4. Metabolic alkalosis


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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: 4

Answer to Question 2

3. Metabolic acidosis

Rationale:
A client who is fasting is at risk for development of metabolic acidosis. The body recognizes fasting as starvation and begins to metabolize its own proteins into ketones, which are metabolic acids. Starvation would not result in respiratory acidosis or alkalosis or in metabolic alkalosis.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Wow, this really help

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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