Background: Henrik is building a terrace with a wooden trolley and uses a powerful cutting / miter saw. He has just been peeing in the woods when he starts sawing. His son plays football next door. The son gets a foul and shoots Henrik in the head !! He stumbles and the accident occurs. The hand comes against the saw blade and tears off 2 fingers !!! He bleeds heavily, and loses at least 1L of blood before the ambulance arrives. When the ambulance staff is on site, they take their blood pressure and see that it is very low and they go to the hospital very quickly. Once inside the hospital, he gets a catheter and he sees that there was some urine in the bladder. Since Henrik teaches about kidney function, he immediately begins to think about what he read about the kidney's reaction to greatly reduced blood volume as a result of ex. an injury. 1. A doctor (slightly confused) comes in to Henrik and he says: -This does not look good ..... We have to amputate your right leg immediately! Henrik is shocked and confused, gets death anxiety and starts hyperventilating! How will the hyperventilation affect the pH in Henrik's blood (what is left) and why?
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Henrik is building a terrace with a wooden trolley and uses a powerful cutting / miter saw. He has just been peeing in the woods when he starts sawing. His son plays football next door. The son gets a foul and shoots Henrik in the head !! He stumbles and the accident occurs. The hand comes against the saw blade and tears off 2 fingers !!! He bleeds heavily, and loses at least 1L of blood before the ambulance arrives. When the ambulance staff is on site, they take their blood pressure and see that it is very low and they go to the hospital very quickly. Once inside the hospital, he gets a catheter and he sees that there was some urine in the bladder. Since Henrik teaches about kidney function, he immediately begins to think about what he read about the kidney's reaction to greatly reduced blood volume as a result of ex. an injury.
1. A doctor (slightly confused) comes in to Henrik and he says: -This does not look good ..... We have to amputate your right leg immediately! Henrik is shocked and confused, gets death anxiety and starts hyperventilating!
How will the hyperventilation affect the pH in Henrik's blood (what is left) and why?
2. A nurse comes rushing in and grabs the doctor and says: -But my God Professor Calculus, you have entered the wrong room! You were going to Bosse in room 10 !! The doctor apologizes embarrassed and confused. Henrik calms down ....... for a short while he experiences that he breathes much slower and "shallower" than usual.
Explain what this may be due to and what happens to Henrik's pH in the blood.
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