Lecture 2: Body Fluids and Clearance Concepts Flashcards
What average percentage of body weight is water?
60% body weight
What does water percentage of body weight vary upon?
Gender and adipose tissue
Changes in body weight can reflect what?
Changes in water content
What % of body weight is intracellular fluid?
40% BW
What % of body weight is extracellular fluid?
20% BW
What does extracellular fluid consist of?
Interstitial fluid and plasma
What % of body weight is interstitial fluid?
~16% BW
What % of body weight is plasma?
~4% BW
What is intracellular fluid?
Water inside cells where intracellular solutes dissolve
What are the major cations of intracellular fluid?
K+; Mg+
What are the major anions of intracellular fluid?
Proteins and organic phosphates
What is extracellular fluid?
Water outside cells
What is the major cation(s) of extracellular fluid?
Na+
What is the major anion(s) of extracellular fluid?
Cl- and HCO3-
What is interstitial fluid (in basic terms)?
Ultrafiltrate of plasma
What does it mean when it is said that interstitial fluid is the ultrafiltrate of plasma?
No free proteins or blood cells, pores in capillaries allow small solutes to filter, but no protein or blood cells
What is the composition of interstitial fluid?
Similar to plasma (minus proteins and blood cells)
What do you multiply by to get mL?
1000
What can alter solute or water balance, causing water to shift between fluid compartments?
Physiological disturbances can alter solute or water balance
What does volume of a compartment depend on?
Total solute in compartment
What is osmolarity? (Include units)
Concentration of osmotically active particles (mOsm/L)
What is the osmolarity of a normal cell?
290 mOsm/L - 300mOsm/L
In steady state, what could be said about ICF osmolarity and ECF osmolarity?
Equal to one another, water shifts freely across membrane
If a disturbance occurs to change ECF osmolarity
Water shifts across cell membranes (depends on what change to determine direction)
What are considered to be confined to ECF as they cannot readily cross cell membranes
Large solutes/Na (ingestion of large amount of NaCl)
Any loss or gain of water and/or electrolytes initially occurs where?
ECF
Volume contraction
Decrease in ECF volume
Volume expansion
Increase in ECF volume