Chapter 42: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1.A patient has dehydration. While planning care, the nurse considers that the majority of the patient’s total water volume exists in with compartment? a. Intracellular b. Extracellular c. Intravascular d. Transcellular ANS: A Intracellular (inside the cells) Ԩuid accounts for approximately two thirds of total body water. Extracellular (outside the cells) is approximately one third of the total body water. Intravascular Ԩuid (liquid portion of theblood) and transcellular Ԩuid are two major divisions of the extracellular compartment. DIF:Understand (comprehension)REF:935 OBJ escribe the processes involved in regulating extracellular Ԩuid volume, body fluid osmolality, and fluid distribution.TOP lanning2 MSC: Physiological Adaptation 2.The nurse is teaching about the process of passively moving water from an area of lower particle concentration to an area of higher particle concentration. Which process is the nurse describing?