Fluid Therapy Flashcards

1
Q

What are 6 ways fluid can be lost?

A
Sweating
Breathing
Urination
Diarrhoea
Vomiting
Bleeding
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2
Q

How can fluids be administered?

A
Oral
Subcutaneous
Intravenous
Intraperitoneal
Intraosseous
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3
Q

Prefix - INTRA?

A

Inside

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4
Q

Prefix - INTER?

A

Between

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5
Q

Prefix - EXTRA?

A

Outside

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6
Q

Prefix - VAS(O)?

A

Vessels

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7
Q

What is the lack of fluid from all over the body called?

A

Dehydration

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8
Q

What is the meaning of Intravascular?

A

Inside the vascular system

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9
Q

What is the meaning of Extravascular?

A

Everything outside the vascular system

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10
Q

What is the meaning of Intracellular?

A

Fluid inside cells

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11
Q

What is the meaning of Extracellular?

A

Fluid outside the cells

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12
Q

What is the meaning of Interstitial?

A

Fluid that is outside cells and vessels

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13
Q

What is the meaning of Transcellular?

A

Fluid elsewhere

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14
Q

What are the 3 main electrolytes in body fluid?

A

Potassium
Sodium
Chloride

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15
Q

What is the abbreviation for Intracellular fluid?

A

ICF

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16
Q

Intracellular fluid is water within the “____”

A

Water WITHIN the CELLS

17
Q

What is the main cation of intracellular fluid?

A

Potassium (K+)

18
Q

What is the abbreviation of extracellular fluid?

A

EFC

19
Q

Extracellular fluid is water outside the “____”

A

Water OUTSIDE the CELLS

20
Q

What is the main cation of extracellular fluid?

A

Sodium (Na+)

21
Q

What is the major anion of extracellular fluid?

A

Chloride (CI-)

22
Q

What are the 3 parts of extracellular fluid?

A

Interstitial
Transcellular
Intravascular

23
Q

What’s a solute?

A

The substance being dissolved

24
Q

What’s a solvent?

A

The substance doing the dissolving

25
Q

What’s a solution?

A

The solute + solvent dissolved

26
Q

What’s the meaning of permeable

A

Allows things to pass through

27
Q

What’s a semi-permeable membrane?

A

A barrier that only allows some things to pass through

28
Q

What’s diffusion?

A

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.

29
Q

What’s osmosis?

A

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.