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FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES
FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
01/22/2012

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Term
What test checks the amount of creatinine in the body?
Definition
Serum Creatinine
Term
What is the normal creatinine in the body?
Definition
0.6-1.5
Term
High creatinine in the body is an indicator of what?
Definition
Renal Failure
Term
What blood test measures renal function?
Definition
Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)
Term
What is the normal BUN level in the body?
Definition
8-20
Term
What are the signs and Sx of fluid volume deficient?
Definition
Decrease urinary output
Increase pulse
Hypotension
Thirst
Weight loss
Term
What are the signs and Sx of fluid volume excess?
Definition
Hypertension
Tachycardia
Tachypnea
Weight loss
Confusion
Lethargy
Term
What is high potassium called?
Definition
Hyperkalemia
Term
Patients with Hyperkalemia are at risk for what?
Definition
Decrease renal function
Metabolic Acidosis
Life threatening dysrhythmias
Term
What is low potassium called?
Definition
Hypokalemia
Term
Patients with Hypokalemia are at risk for what?
Definition
GI, renal, cardiovascular, and neurological disturbances.

Can also cause abnormal, potential, fatal heart rhythms.
Term
What is the largest portion of body weight?
Definition
Water
Term
The more fat a person has the less what they have?
Definition
Water
Term
Substances that develops an electrical charge when dissolved in water?
Definition
Electrolytes
Term
The most abundant electrolyte; primary electrolyte in extracellular fluid?
Definition
Sodium (Na+)
Term
Found mainly in the intracellular fluid, the major intracellular cation?
Definition
Potassium (K+)
Term
What electrolyte is a critical part in transmitting never impulses?
Definition
potassium
Term
An extracellular anion that is usually bounded with other ions; esp sodium or potassium?
Definition
Chloride (Cl-)
Term
If sodium is high in the body what electrolyte is usually low?
Definition
Chloride
Term
What is usually combined with phosphorus to form the mineral salt of the bones and teeth?
Definition
Calcium (Ca+)
Term
What percent of Ca is extracellular fluid?
Definition
1%
Term
A cation found in bone; and is an intracellular fluid?
Definition
Magnesium (Mg+)
Term
What are examples of non-electrolytes?
Definition
Urea
Protein
Glucose
Creatinine
Bilirubin
Term
Normal substance moves from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration?

It does not require energy.
Definition
Diffusion
Term
Carrier proteins transports from an area of lower concentration to an area of equal or greater concentration?

This requires a lot of energy.
Definition
Active Transport
Term
Transfer of water and solutes through a membrane from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
Definition
Filtration
Term
Movement of water across a membrane from a less concentration to a more concentrated solution?
Definition
Osmosis
Term
Normal value for Serum Sodium?
Definition
136-145
Term
Normal value for Serum Potassium?
Definition
3.5-5
Term
Normal value for Serum Chloride?
Definition
98-107
Term
Normal value for Serum Magnesium?
Definition
1.5-2.15
Term
Normal value for Serum Calcium?
Definition
9-11
Term
Normal urine pH levels?
Definition
5-8
Term
Normal urine specific gravity levels?
Definition
1.010-1.025
Term
A test that checks the percentage of blood volume composed of RBC's?
Definition
Serum Hematocrit
Term
Normal value for Serum Hematocrit?
Definition
Males 40-54
Females 38-47
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