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Unit 2
MGCCC level 2 FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES
Question | Answer |
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What is the nursing role regarding Fluid and electrolytes? | To prevent and treat imbalances |
What are the 2 compartements that the body fluid is distributed into? | intracellular and Extracellular |
What makes up all fluid within the body cells? | Intracelluar fluid |
Extracellular fluid is divided into 3 compartments, name them: | Interstitial fluid, intravascular fluid, transcellular fluid |
Where is the intersitial fluid? | fluid between the cells, outside the blood vessels |
intravascular fluids are where? | blood plasma |
Where is transcellular fluid? | CSF, Pleural fluid, peritonal fluids, and synovial, urine, digestive secreations, sweat, pericardial fluids. |
What is a positive charged ion called? ex? | Cation Sodium Potassium Calcium |
What is a negative charged ion called? ex? | anions chloride bicarbonate Sulfate |
What is osmosis? | Process by which water moves across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of low concentration to an area of higher concentration |
Osmolality refers to what? | amount of solutes per liter of solution |
Osmolarity |