WGU D236 Patho Study Guide 2025/2026
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Pressure that is due to albumin in the bloodstream? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Oncotic
Oncotic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a form of osmotic pressure exerted by proteins
In the blood, _____ is the most common plasma protein and is, therefore, a
primary determinant of oncotic pressure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔albumin
_____ controls osmotic pressure in vascular system, builds volume - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Albumin
,One question was about the difference in children and adult immunity - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Possible answer: naive T cells
Learning check question: Which differences in immunity make children and
older adult patients more susceptible to infections? Choose 2 answers
Younger patients have fewer memory cells to combat infection
Older adult patients have a dwindling population of naive T cells
Older adult patients have more memory cells to combat infection
Younger patients have a large population of naive T cells
Older adult patients have a large population of naive T cells - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Younger patients have fewer memory cells to combat infection
,Older adult patients have a dwindling population of naive T cells
Rationale: younger patients have not been exposed to many pathogens,
which means that they have fewer memory cells than adults. The primary
immune response is relatively weak compared to a secondary response
mediated by memory cells.
Older adult patients do not have as many T cells compared to younger
patients. When these patients encounter novel pathogens, the reduced
number of naive T cells gives clonal selection fewer opportunities to "find" T
cells that will be effective.
Fluid and electrolyte levels are regulated by _______, which regulates
actions such as thirst, ADH, the kidneys, and RAAS. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔osmoreceptors
Fluid deficit causes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Excessive loss
-Inadequate intake
-Or combination of both
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, Fluid deficit risk factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Vomiting/diarrhea
-Excessive sweating
-Insufficient water intake
Fluid deficit manifestations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-dry mucous membranes
-decreased skin turgor
-decreased urine output
-low blood pressure
-tachycardia
-confusion
ROME for ABGs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Respiratory Opposite Metabolic Equal
If pH and pCO2 are moving in opposite directions, then it is pCO2 levels
that are causing the imbalance and it is respiratory in nature
If they are moving the same direction then it is metabolic in nature
Buffers, renal compensation, and respiratory compensation help to
maintain a blood pH of _______ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔7.35-7.45
Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Latest Update
Pressure that is due to albumin in the bloodstream? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Oncotic
Oncotic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a form of osmotic pressure exerted by proteins
In the blood, _____ is the most common plasma protein and is, therefore, a
primary determinant of oncotic pressure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔albumin
_____ controls osmotic pressure in vascular system, builds volume - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Albumin
,One question was about the difference in children and adult immunity - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Possible answer: naive T cells
Learning check question: Which differences in immunity make children and
older adult patients more susceptible to infections? Choose 2 answers
Younger patients have fewer memory cells to combat infection
Older adult patients have a dwindling population of naive T cells
Older adult patients have more memory cells to combat infection
Younger patients have a large population of naive T cells
Older adult patients have a large population of naive T cells - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Younger patients have fewer memory cells to combat infection
,Older adult patients have a dwindling population of naive T cells
Rationale: younger patients have not been exposed to many pathogens,
which means that they have fewer memory cells than adults. The primary
immune response is relatively weak compared to a secondary response
mediated by memory cells.
Older adult patients do not have as many T cells compared to younger
patients. When these patients encounter novel pathogens, the reduced
number of naive T cells gives clonal selection fewer opportunities to "find" T
cells that will be effective.
Fluid and electrolyte levels are regulated by _______, which regulates
actions such as thirst, ADH, the kidneys, and RAAS. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔osmoreceptors
Fluid deficit causes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Excessive loss
-Inadequate intake
-Or combination of both
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, Fluid deficit risk factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Vomiting/diarrhea
-Excessive sweating
-Insufficient water intake
Fluid deficit manifestations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-dry mucous membranes
-decreased skin turgor
-decreased urine output
-low blood pressure
-tachycardia
-confusion
ROME for ABGs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Respiratory Opposite Metabolic Equal
If pH and pCO2 are moving in opposite directions, then it is pCO2 levels
that are causing the imbalance and it is respiratory in nature
If they are moving the same direction then it is metabolic in nature
Buffers, renal compensation, and respiratory compensation help to
maintain a blood pH of _______ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔7.35-7.45
