Monthly Archives: August 2013
Acid/Base Balance Part 5: Adapative phase
| August 26, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
As we finished up last time, we touched on some strategies of the body to replenish fluid and elyte losses after exercise. This is referred to as the “acute” stage. The secondary “adaptive” stage results in an “enhanced ability to cope with future systemic disturbances” – because exercise is in a nutshell a disturbance in […] more
Solstice really is the perfect saddle
| August 21, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
By some miracle I find myself with about 30 minutes of free time, with no school stuff to review, study, or prepare, and without my notes for the next installment of our acid base discussion. Which means you get a quick personal update instead. I sat in a Solstice saddle for the first time since […] more
Acid Base Balance Part 4: Continuing with Exercise
| August 19, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
I find this post incredibly confusing. So, the bottom line is this: various hormones increase in the body at different points during exercise. Each thing has it’s own unique action on body water balance and sodium AND different actions of a molecule/hormone may be emphasized over others during exercise. And just because something is reported […] more
Acid Base Part 3: Continuing with plasma volume and exercise
| August 15, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
Quick update on me: Third year is so far, much more awesome than previous years. Mostly because they split the class up into large and small animal. Any guesses of how many large animal people there are from a class of 140? About 25. That’s AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Turns out I’m much more motivated to study and […] more
Acid Base Balance Part 2: Sodium and Intro to Plasma Volume
| August 12, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
Low plasma volume is called “hypovolemia”. Losing body water to sweat during exercise causes a SIGNIFICANT loss of plasma volume. Plasma volume is protected by the body, because in the presence of hypovolemia the cardiovascular (to put in a very non-vet way) crashes. No bueno. Plasma volume expansion is one way the body adapts to […] more
Acid Balance Part 1: Important concepts
| August 11, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
References – for this post and the following posts…….I will probably add more, but these are the main sources that are a good starting point if you want to do your own reading. Faubel, S., & Topf, J. (1999). The Fluid Electrolyte and Acid-Base Companion (1st ed.). Alert and Oriented Publishing Co.– Note: just like […] more
Your regular scheduled programming will return
| August 7, 2013 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Why the long silence? I’m researching the body water/electrolyte/acid base topic, which is IMMENSE and requiring quite a bit of brain power to break it down into something I can understand, much less explain here! I start school next Monday and would really like to have some posts put together for you on the electrolyte […] more
