Fluid & Electrolytes Flashcards
FVE, FVD, IV fluids, hyper/hypomagnesemia, hyper/hypocalcemia, hyper/hyponatremia, hyper/hypokalemia,
Fluid Volume Excess = ____
Too much ____ in the ____ ____
Hypervolemia
fluid, vascular space
Causes of FVE
• Heart Failure
• Renal Failure
• Things w/ lots of sodium
• Heart Failure
Heart is weak = cardiac output ↓ = kidney perfusion ↓ = UOP ↓ = volume stays in vascular space
• Renal Failure
Kidneys are NOT perfusing
• Things w/ lots of sodium
- effervescent/fizzy meds
- canned foods
- IVF w/ sodium
Aldosterone
- found in adrenal gland
- normal action: when blood volume gets low (vomiting, hemorrhage) -> aldosterone secretion increases -> retain SODIUM and WATER -> blood volume ↑
Diseases with too much aldosterone
Cushing’s disease (too much of ALL steroids)
Hyperaldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome)
Diseases with too little aldosterone
Addison’s disease
Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH)
retain water
Three Letters/Three Characters
ADH and H2O
ADH = think WATER
Too much ADH
TOO MANY ____, TOO MUCH ____
SIADH - Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-Diuretic Hormone
TOO MANY letters, TOO MUCH water
• Retain water
• FVE
• Urine concentrated - ↑ specific gravity, ↑ Na
• Blood diluted - ↓ Hct
Not enough ADH
DI = di____
DI - Diabetes Insipidus DI = diurese • Lose (diurese) water • FVD • concerned w/ SHOCK • Urine diluted - ↓ specific gravity, ↓ Na • Blood concentrated - ↑ Hct
CONCENTRATED makes #’s go ______
DILUTE makes #’s go _______
CONCENTRATED = #’s go UP
DILUTE = #’s go DOWN
• Urine specific gravity, Sodium, Hematocrit (Hct)
ADH is found in the ____
pituitary gland (behind sinus)
Conditions associated w/ ADH problem
- craniotomy
- head injury
- sinus surgery
- transsphenoidal hypophysectomy
- any condition that can lead to ↑ ICP = ADH problem
increased ICP can lead to a ________ problem
ADH (SIADH or DI)
transsphenoidal hypophysectomy
going thru sinus in the pituitary to take something out
Drugs utilized in DI
desmopressin (DDAVP) or vasopressin (Pitressin)–ADH replacement in DI
S/SX of FVE
Veins? Edema? CVP? lung sounds? UOP? Pulse? BP? Weight?
- distended neck veins/peripheral veins (full of fluid)
- peripheral edema/3rd spacing: Vessels can’t hold any more, so they start to LEAK
- CVP ↑ (more VOLUME, more PRESSURE)
- Lung sounds: WET CRACKLES
- Polyuria: kidney are trying to help you diurese
- Pulse ↑; palpate ARTERY; full and bounding
- BP ↑ (more VOLUME, more PRESSURE)
- Weight ↑ (not fat, acute gain/loss is FLUID)
Central Venous Pressure (CVP) is measured where?
right atrium
HEART only wants fluid to go _____
FORWARD
If the fluid doesn’t go forward, it’s going to ____
Can lead to ____
go back into the lungs
HF and pulmonary edema
Fluid retention: Think ____ ____ first
Heart Problems
FVE Treatment
• diet? fluids?
• measure?
• meds?
- bed rest to induce?
- precaution about IVFs
- Low sodium diet/Restrict fluids
- I and O and Daily weights (same time of day/scale/clothing, before 1st meal and 1st void)
• Diuretics
- Loop - 1st choice furosemide (Lasix); bumetanide (Bumex) given if furosemide doesn’t work
- hydrochlorothiazide (Thiazide) – watch for dehydration/electrolyte problems
- Potassium-sparing: spironolactone
- Bed rest induces DIURESIS by the release of ANP and ↓ production of ADH
- Physical assessment
- Give IVFs SLOWLY to the elderly and very young, and clients w/ history of cardiac/renal problems
Fluid Volume Deficit
Loss of fluid from ____
Hypovolemia
anywhere
Causes of FVD
• Loss of ____ from anywhere (like?)
• ____ spacing – what is it? examples?
• Diseases with ____
• Loss of fluid from anywhere
thoracentesis, paracentesis, vomiting, diarrhea, hemorrhage
• 3rd spacing
when fluid is in a place that does you no good
- BURNS
- ASCITES - measure abdominal girth daily and worry about HYPOTENSION
• Diseases w/ polyuria
Diabetes Mellitus
- Polyuria: think SHOCK first
- Polyuria → Oliguria → Anuria = RENAL FAILURE
Polyuria: Think ____ first
SHOCK