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Match each component in the blood with its normal plasma range.

A SCUBA diver patient is admitted to the ED following a rapid decompression from 50 feet below surface. She has decompression sickness with air bubbles lodged in her joints causing extreme pain. The patient is placed in a hyperbaric chamber to expose her body to high pressures and shrink the size of the bubbles. This process of increasing pressure to decrease the size of the bubbles is an application of ________ law.

Based on the Starling curve shown here, the patient would benefit from administration of  

Which of the following vessels or chambers carries/contains deoxygenated blood?

Blood returning to the left atrium from this vessel contributes to the normal physiologic shunt.

An increase in pulmonary vascular resistance indicates which of the following?

 Label each statement below as a description of the Systemic Circulation or Pulmonary Circulation.

According to Fick’s law, the diffusion of a gas increases when the:

You observe that Mr. Smith’s CVP has increased from 6 mmHg to 14 mmHg over the past 8 hours. This reflects which of the following hemodynamic changes?

All of the following are true regarding polycythemia EXCEPT