Lab Values
The normal lab values for sodium?
What is 135-145mEq/L
Main source of water balance in the body?
What is Sodium
Decreasing in vascular volume?
What is Hypovolemia
What is the major cations that are found in the body?
What is Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium
Which % of water does the adult male body have?
What is 60%
The normal lab value for Calcium?
What is 4.2-5.25mEq/L
Plays an important role in the transmission of electrical impulses?
What is potassium
Large quantities of isotonic fluid in an extracellular compartment?
What is Fluid Volume Excess
How does water and electrolytes move across a cell membrane?
What is Active Transport, Diffusion, Osmosis, and Filtration
Which % of water does the adult female body have?
What is 50%
The normal lab values for Potassium?
What is 3.5-5mEq/L
What is calcium
Abnormally low Potassium level?
What is hypokalemia
Whos body contains approximately 75% of total water weight?
What is newborns
The main symptom of hypotonic hydration?
What is Hyponatremia
The normal lab values for Magnesium
What is 1.5-2.5mEq/L
Organic substance that does not break apart or dissociate when transferred in water solution?
What is Glucose
Occurs when fluid intake exceeds output?
What is Overhydration
Regulation of fluid output occurs through which four organs?
What is the Kidneys, Lungs, Skin, Intestines
What are the main functions of water?
1. Transportations of substances in and from cells
2. Heat regulation
3. Maintains hydrogen balance in the body
4. Function for enzymatic action of digestion
The normal lab value for Bicarbonate?
What is 22-26mEq/L
Essential for the production of ATP?
What is Phosphate
Signs of Hyperkalemia?
What is increased intake, tissue trauma, burns, or renal failure
Fluid pressing outward against the walls of its container?
What is Hydrostatic Pressure
What is Dehydration?
Fluid deficit, loss of water from the cells