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HOW DOES ACTIVE TRANSPORT USE ATP TO MOVE MOLECULES ACROSS THE MEMBRANE? - ️️ATP PUSHES AND PULLS TO FIRE UP AN ACTION POTENTIAL TO FIRE DOWN A NEURON AND CAUSE THE MUSCLE TO CONTRACT. HOW MUCH TOTAL INTAKE OF FLUIDS DO WE NEED FOR NORMAL DAILY FUNCTION? - ️️2500 ML HOW MUCH OF OUR INTAKE OF FLUIDS IS INGESTED (ORAL FLUID)? - ️️1500 ML WHAT IS THE MINIMAL OUTPUT OF FLUIDS? - ️️2500 ML WHAT IS THE LARGEST PORTION OF OUR BODY WEIGHT? - ️️WATER WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BODY WEIGHT IS WATER IN AN INFANT? - ️️77% WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BODY WEIGHT IS WATER IN THE ELDERLY? - ️️45% WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES OF MINOR IMBALANCES OF WATER? - ️️VERY YOUNG AND VERY OLD WHAT ARE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE WATER IN THE BODY? - ️️1. SODIUM 2. MEDICATIONS 3. VOMITING & DIARRHEA 4. HEAT LEADING TO DEHYDRATION

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EXAM 1 MED-SURG NU155

HOW DOES ACTIVE TRANSPORT USE ATP TO MOVE MOLECULES ACROSS THE
MEMBRANE? - ✔️✔️ATP PUSHES AND PULLS TO FIRE UP AN ACTION
POTENTIAL TO FIRE DOWN A NEURON AND CAUSE THE MUSCLE TO
CONTRACT.

HOW MUCH TOTAL INTAKE OF FLUIDS DO WE NEED FOR NORMAL DAILY
FUNCTION? - ✔️✔️2500 ML

HOW MUCH OF OUR INTAKE OF FLUIDS IS INGESTED (ORAL FLUID)? -
✔️✔️1500 ML

WHAT IS THE MINIMAL OUTPUT OF FLUIDS? - ✔️✔️2500 ML


WHAT IS THE LARGEST PORTION OF OUR BODY WEIGHT? - ✔️✔️WATER

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BODY WEIGHT IS WATER IN AN INFANT? - ✔️✔️77%

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BODY WEIGHT IS WATER IN THE ELDERLY? - ✔️✔️45%

WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES OF MINOR
IMBALANCES OF WATER? - ✔️✔️VERY YOUNG AND VERY OLD

WHAT ARE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE WATER IN THE BODY? - ✔️✔️1.
SODIUM
2. MEDICATIONS
3. VOMITING & DIARRHEA
4. HEAT LEADING TO DEHYDRATION

WHAT ARE THE 4 MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF WATER? - ✔️✔️1. INTRACELLULAR
AND EXTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT
2. HEAT REGULATION
3. MAINTAIN PH BALANCE
4. AIDS IN DIGESTION


MOST OF THE BODY'S FLUIDS ARE INTRACELLULAR/EXTRACELLULAR? -
✔️✔️INTRACELLULAR

, THIS FLUID IS IN BLOOD VESSELS IN THE FORM OF PLASMA OR SERUM. -
✔️✔️INTRAVASCULAR

FLUID SURROUNDING CELLS, INCLUDING LYMPH. - ✔️✔️INTERSTITIAL FLUID

WHAT CAUSES PITTING EDEMA? - ✔️✔️INTERSTITIAL FLUID BUILD UP

MOVEMENT FROM AN AREA OF HIGHER CONCENTRATION TO LOWER
CONCENTRATION. - ✔️✔️DIFFUSION

MOVEMENT OF WATER FROM AN AREA OF LOWER CONCENTRATION TO AN
AREA OF HIGHER CONCENTRATION. - ✔️✔️OSMOSIS

WATER AND SOLUTES ARE PUSHED THROUGH A SEMI-PERMEABLE
MEMBRANE IN EQUAL AMOUNTS AT THE SAME TIME FROM AN AREA OF HIGH
PRESSURE TO LOW PRESSURE. - ✔️✔️FILTRATION

MOVEMENT OF SODIUM INTO CELL AND POTASSIUM OUT OF CELL ACROSS A
MEMBRANE THAT REQUIRES CELLULAR ENERGY IN THE FORM OF ATP -
✔️✔️ACTIVE TRANSPORT


BESIDES INGESTED FLUIDS, WHAT ARE OTHER SOURCES OF FLUID INTAKE? -
✔️✔️FOOD AND CELLULAR METABOLISM

WHAT ARE SOURCES OF FLUID OUTPUT? - ✔️✔️URINE
SWEATING
FECES
EXHALED AIR

HOW DOES THE BODY REGULATE FLUIDS? - ✔️✔️THIRST
KIDNEYS
HORMONES (ADH AND ALDOSTERONE)

WHAT IS ADH RESPONSIBLE FOR? - ✔️✔️SIGNALS THE BODY TO RETAIN
WATER

WHAT IS ALDOSTERONE RESPONSIBLE FOR? - ✔️✔️SALT RETAINING
HORMONE, MEANING WATER IS RETAINED
INCREASES BP

WHAT OCCURS WHEN THERE IS A LACK OF ADH? - ✔️✔️DIABETES INSIPIDUS

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