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Fluids
Dehydration/Excess
Intake/Output
Electrolytes
Diet
100
50-60 percent of human body weight is from this
What is water?
100
Young children, the elderly, and those who are ill
Who are the types of people most at risk for dehydration?
100
Drinks, solid foods, and metabolic water.
What are the three sources of water intake?
100
Cations
What is another name for electrolytes?
100
A diet with no nuts, seeds, or spicy items.
What is a low reside diet?
200
The fluid inside of cells.
What is intracellular fluid?
200
Fluid buildup or gain in the abdomen, often caused by liver failure or infection.
What is ascites?
200
1080ml - 1650ml
What is the normal amount of fluid output from urine?
200
Regulates fluid balance in the body based on water's tendency to remain in an area with a higher concentration of solute.
What is an electrolyte?
200
A tube that is placed through an opening into the stomach for long term feeding.
What is a gastrostomy tube?
300
A fluid contained within veins, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and venules.
What is intravascular fluid?
300
Fever, diarrhea, diuretics, vomiting, increased environmental temperatures, and physical activity.
What are causes of dehydration?
300
Sweat, fluids lost in bowel movements, immeasurable water losses, and fluids lost during exhalation
What are examples of insensible water losses?
300
The main electrolyte in extracellular fluid that aids in the transmission of neural impulses.
What is sodium?
300
The use of a GI tract to provide nutrition to the body.
What is enteral nutrition?
400
The liquid part of blood.
What is plasma?
400
low temperature, dry mucous membranes, oliguria, anuria, weak pulse, and blood pressure changes
What are symptoms of dehydration?
400
This is caused by fluid gathering in interstitial spaces in the body, leaving a person with swollen ankles or feet.
What is fluid edema?
400
An electrolyte that affects cell membrane permeability and is essential for the contraction of muscles.
What is calcium?
400
A type of feeding that is delivered intravenously when a patient's GI tract is not functioning properly.
What is parenteral nutrition?
500
A fluid that matches the osmolality of blood plasma.
What is an isotonic fluid?
500
A hormone that causes kidneys to return water to the blood stream rather than urine.
What is vasopressin?
500
2450 ml
What is the average amount of fluid output?
500
The movement of water across a membrane from an area that has a lower concentraion of solute to one with a greater concentration of solute.
What is osmosis?
500
Anorexia,inability to swallow or or orally consume nutrients, loss of appetite, cancer, burns, major trauma, congenital deformities, acute or chronic renal failure, and renal dysfunction.
What are reasons for tube feedings?