Nursing 3910A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Internal Jugular Vein, Dementia, Vasoconstriction
6 Dec 2017
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Assessment and management of patients with endocrine disorders. In p. paul, r. a. day & b. williams, brunner & suddarth"s canadian textbook of medical-surgical nursing (3rd ed. , pp. The thyroid gland: thyroid is a butterfly-shaped organ located in the lower neck, anterior to the trachea. Iodine is essential to the thyroid gland for synthesis of its hormones. Iodine is ingested into the diet and absorbed through blood into the gi tract: thyroid gland picks up iodine from the blood, where idione reacts with tyrosine (amino acid) to form the thyroid hormone. Regulation of thyroid hormone: secretion of t3 and t4 by the thyroid glans is controlled by tsh (also called thyrotropin) from the anterior pituitary gland, tsh controls the rate of thyroid hormone release through a negative feedback loop. In turn, the level of thyroid hormone in the blood determines the release of tsh.
