Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

HOSMEOSTASIS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Glucose
      - Urea
      - Mineral ions
      - Water
- - - - Carries the function of the kidney
      - Dialysis machine
      - Takes around 8 hours several times a week
      - Fluid contains the same concentration of useful substances as the blood of a healthy person
  - - - Life saving
      - No need for major surgery
      - Suitable for all the patients
    - - Need to reamian close to the dialysis clinic
      - Nedds to control the diet
      - Approx 3X8 hours per week
      - Cost
- - - - Thermoregulatory center
    - - Muscles surrounding blood vesels (arterioles) suppling capilaires in the skin
      - Muscle attached to hair in the skin
      - Skeletal muscles
      - Sweat glands
    - - Thermoregulatory center in the hypothalamus mesures blood temperature
      - Receptors cells in the skin detect heat differences between the skin and the environment
  - - - Water
      - Glucose
      - Temperature
- - - - This means the inmune systeme would attack and destroy the new kidney
      - The main problem with transplants is that their new kidney comes from a different person, therefore has antigens the body doesn't recognise on it
    - - Give the patient inmunopressant drugs to prevent the kidney being attacked by the inmune system.
      - Match "tissue types"
  - - - Taking inmunopressant drugs for life
      - Donor organs is more likely to fail eventually
      - Availiability for donor organs
    - - Restores normal kidney fonction
      - Low term costs are lower than dialysis