Fluid Therapy Flashcards
What are 6 ways fluid can be lost?
Sweating Breathing Urination Diarrhoea Vomiting Bleeding
How can fluids be administered?
Oral Subcutaneous Intravenous Intraperitoneal Intraosseous
Prefix - INTRA?
Inside
Prefix - INTER?
Between
Prefix - EXTRA?
Outside
Prefix - VAS(O)?
Vessels
What is the lack of fluid from all over the body called?
Dehydration
What is the meaning of Intravascular?
Inside the vascular system
What is the meaning of Extravascular?
Everything outside the vascular system
What is the meaning of Intracellular?
Fluid inside cells
What is the meaning of Extracellular?
Fluid outside the cells
What is the meaning of Interstitial?
Fluid that is outside cells and vessels
What is the meaning of Transcellular?
Fluid elsewhere
What are the 3 main electrolytes in body fluid?
Potassium
Sodium
Chloride
What is the abbreviation for Intracellular fluid?
ICF
Intracellular fluid is water within the “____”
Water WITHIN the CELLS
What is the main cation of intracellular fluid?
Potassium (K+)
What is the abbreviation of extracellular fluid?
EFC
Extracellular fluid is water outside the “____”
Water OUTSIDE the CELLS
What is the main cation of extracellular fluid?
Sodium (Na+)
What is the major anion of extracellular fluid?
Chloride (CI-)
What are the 3 parts of extracellular fluid?
Interstitial
Transcellular
Intravascular
What’s a solute?
The substance being dissolved
What’s a solvent?
The substance doing the dissolving
What’s a solution?
The solute + solvent dissolved
What’s the meaning of permeable
Allows things to pass through
What’s a semi-permeable membrane?
A barrier that only allows some things to pass through
What’s diffusion?
When the spontaneous movement of substances move from a SOLUTION with a high SOLUTE concentration to a SOLUTION with a low SOLUTE concentration to balance the SOLUTES on each side. This stops when equilibrium, is reached.
What’s osmosis?
The SOLVENT moves from a SOLUTION with low SOLUTE concentration to a SOLUTION with high SOLUTE concentration, when separated by a semi-permeable membrane to balance the concentration of SOLUTION.
