NUR 1175 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid Base
Imbalances
1. What are two things that can stimulate ADH?
Answer
1. increased serum osmolality
2. decreased blood volume
2. True or False
Albumin acts like a magnet to attract water and hold it inside the blood vessel
Answer
True
3. How does fluid move through capillaries?
Answer
When hydrostatic pressure builds inside a capillary, it forces fluids and solutes out through the
capillary walls into the interstitial fluid.
4. What is reabsorption?
Answer
a process that prevents too much fluid from leaving the capillaries no matter how much
hydrostatic pressure exists within the capillaries
, 5. What is osmosis?
Answer
fluid moves passively from areas w/ more fluid (and fewer solutes) to areas w/ less fluid (and
more solutes).
6. What is the difference between diffusion and osmosis?
Answer
In diffusion, solutes move, whereas in osmosis, fluids move
7. What is active transport?
Answer
when energy from ATP moves solutes from an area of lower concentration to and area of higher
concentration
8. What is diffusion?
Answer
The movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
until the concentration is equal in both areas.
9. To help the body maintain a balance of sodium and water as well as a healthy blood volume
and bp, special cells secrete and enzyme called
Answer
renin
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