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  2. Fluid balance - Wikipedia

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    In an acute hospital setting, fluid balance is monitored carefully. This provides information on the patient's state of hydration, kidney function and cardiovascular function. [citation needed] If fluid loss is greater than fluid gain (for example if the patient vomits and has diarrhea), the patient is said to be in negative fluid balance.

  3. Volume contraction - Wikipedia

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    Na + loss approximately correlates with fluid loss from ECF, since Na + has a much higher concentration in ECF than ICF. In contrast, K + has a much higher concentration in ICF than ECF, and therefore its loss rather correlates with fluid loss from ICF, since K + loss from ECF causes the K + in ICF to diffuse out of the cells, dragging water with it by osmosis.

  4. Intravascular volume status - Wikipedia

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    Example: a child with diarrhea who has been given salty soup to drink, or insufficiently diluted infant formula. Overall there is more sodium than water. The water will move out of the cell toward the intravascular compartment down the osmotic gradient. This can cause tissue breakage (in case of muscle breakage it is called rhabdomyolysis).

  5. Dealing with water weight? Why it's happening and 7 ways to ...

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    Water weight, also known as water retention, is a buildup of excess water or fluid in the body's tissues, which can occur for a variety of reasons, Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, gastroenterologist ...

  6. Hypovolemia - Wikipedia

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    Hypovolemia, also known as volume depletion or volume contraction, is a state of abnormally low extracellular fluid in the body. [1] This may be due to either a loss of both salt and water or a decrease in blood volume. [2] [3] Hypovolemia refers to the loss of extracellular fluid and should not be confused with dehydration. [4]

  7. Fluid compartments - Wikipedia

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    Fluid shifts occur when the body's fluids move between the fluid compartments. Physiologically, this occurs by a combination of hydrostatic pressure gradients and osmotic pressure gradients. Water will move from one space into the next passively across a semi permeable membrane until the hydrostatic and osmotic pressure gradients balance each ...

  8. Fluid replacement - Wikipedia

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    Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes. . Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis, the direct injection of fluid into the subcutaneous tis

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