Bad Fish

Bad Fish

1. Diaphoresis: Production of a salty fluid {sweat} by the sweat glands commonly referred to as perspiration. This would be seen by the doctor on the patient.

Paresthesias: Abnormal skin sensation such as tingling, tickling, burning etc. This is usually told by the patient but since Dr. Westwood couldn’t speak properly, he was probably trying to scratch himself if the sensation was a tingling on or trying to blow air over a burning a part

Cyanotic: A dark bluish coloration of the skin and mucus membranes as a result of deficient oxygenation. Examination of the conjunctiva would spell this out

Hypoventilation: Deficient supply of oxygen to the alveoli of the lungs causing an increase in partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the lungs. The doctor would see shallow breath intake and fast breathe rate.  This is the cause of the cyanosis.

Bradycardia: Slow heart rate {> 50 beats per minute}

Gastric lavage: Washing out the stomach by introduction of along tube into the stomach and passing fluid to clean it out.

Oxygen Saturation: Oxygen saturation is defined as the relative amount of oxygen that is present in the RBCs. The fraction of heamoglobin that is saturated or filled with oxygen. 

2. Four elements namely Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen

3. Covalent and peptide bonds.

4.  A sodium ion contains 11 protons and 12 neurons in the nucleus and 10 electrons in the orbital shells. The first orbital shell contains two electrons and second contains eight electrons.  

5. A voltage gated sodium channel is a transmembrane protein that allows sodium ions into a cell only when there is a change in membrane potential that reaches or exceeds threshold. It is made up of protein that spans across a cell membrane. The channel itself is made up of a single peptide chain with four repeating units with each unit consisting of six trans-membrane helices. The trans-membrane pore is formed when the four units fold into a cluster with the center of the cluster...