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Fluids and Electrolytes
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10/06/2011

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Does percentage of TBW decrease or increase as body fat increases?
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Decrease
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Does percentage of TBW increase or decrease as you age?
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Decrease
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What is the fluid outside of the cell?
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Extracellular fluid
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What is the fluid inside of cells?
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Intracellular fluid
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In the ECF, what are the spaces between the cells called? What percentage of TBW do they encompass?
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Interstitial space - 25% of TBW
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In the ECF, what is the space between the blood vessels and what percentage of TBW does that encompass?
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Intravascular space - 8% of TBW
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What fluid includes viscous components of peritoneum, pleural space and pericardium?
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Transcellular fluid
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What percentage of TBW is the transcellular fluid?
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1% but increases with various illnesses favoring fluid collection such as acites
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Would a deficiency in fluid status cause someone to be hyper or hypotensive?
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Hypotensive
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Fluids outputs such as urinary or stool loses are easily measurable and are called
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sensible losses
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Evaporation of fluids from the skin or lungs are not readily measurable and are called
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insensible losses
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Would an increase or a decrease in sodium represent a TBW depletion?
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Increase
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Crystalloid solutions, colloidal solutions and O2 carrying resuscitation solutions are called
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Therapeutic IV fluids
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What solution draws water from the ECF to the ICF?
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Hypotonic solution
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What solution draws water from the ICF to the ECF?
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Hypertonic solution
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