Cellular Fluid
Ways to Assess Fluid Balance
Intake and Output
Intake
Output
100

The fluid inside the cell

What is intracellular?

100

The most accurate way to assess fluid balance

What is daily weights?

100

The amount of fluid excreted from the body

What is output?

100

One ounce of oral fluids equals this

What is 30 mL?

100

True/False

When a patient is on I&O it is ok to estimate the amount of urine voided into a bedside commode

False

200

The fluid outside the cell

What is extracellular fluid?

200

1 L of H2O or 1000 mL of H2O is equal to

What is 2.2 lbs or 1 kg?

200

The fluid you can easily measure

What is sensible losses or gains?

200

 Equals half the volume of fluids

What is ice chips volume equal to?

200

A container that has measurements using mL to measure fluid

What is a graduated container?

300

The fluid inside the vessels

What is intravascular fluid?

300
Another way to assess fluid balance by considering what is taken in and out of the body

What is intake and output?

300

The amount of fluid ingested or taken in by the body

What is intake?

300

 Calculated from the total amount infused into a vein

What is IV fluid intake?

300

The amount of fluid output if you have a soiled brief weighing 10 oz. minus the dry brief weighing 2 oz.

What is 240 mL?

400

The fluid surrounding cells or between tissues

What is interstitial fluid?

400

Another way to assess fluid balance that measures what the kidneys excrete

What is urine production?

400

The fluid not easily measured

What is insensible losses?

400

The total amount infused if you begin the shift with 800 mL left in IV bag and 200 mL remaining at the end of the shift

What is 600 mL?

400

The medical term for the fluid vomited

What is emesis?

500

An abnormal collection of fluid found in a potential space that is not usually found

What is third spacing?

500

The amount of fluid that should be excreted from the kidneys hourly

What is 30 ml/hr?

500

An example of a sensible loss

What is fluid drank, urine production, drainage from tubes, etc.

500

This is used to flush foley catheters, NG tubes, etc.

What are irrigation fluids?

500

The amount of output if the NG suction container at the beginning of the shift marked at 100 mL and at the end of the shift measures 650 mL

What is 550 mL?