As I pursue my career in Critical Care Nursing and Paramedicine, I can’t help but wonder something.
I am having the hardest time understanding cellular function. Thanks to EMT school and EMT CMEs I fully understand the different parts of the cell and how they function. I understand what carrier proteins and channel proteins et al. do. What I don’t understand is the process as to how they work at the CHEMICAL level. I don’t understand the chemical reactions that helps these proteins function.
So I pose the question- does it even matter? Does anyone actually look at their patient and say this patient is in metabolic acidosis because these proteins are not working due to this lipid’s carbon rings not forming properly due to this disease/disease process, or do you look at the patient and say this patient is in metabolic acidosis because of this disease/disease process?
I am having the hardest time understanding cellular function. Thanks to EMT school and EMT CMEs I fully understand the different parts of the cell and how they function. I understand what carrier proteins and channel proteins et al. do. What I don’t understand is the process as to how they work at the CHEMICAL level. I don’t understand the chemical reactions that helps these proteins function.
So I pose the question- does it even matter? Does anyone actually look at their patient and say this patient is in metabolic acidosis because these proteins are not working due to this lipid’s carbon rings not forming properly due to this disease/disease process, or do you look at the patient and say this patient is in metabolic acidosis because of this disease/disease process?