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Electrolyte Balance

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1991
The kidney is structurally and biochemically immature at birth. As a consequence, renal function is low (3;10;ll;18). Glomerular filtration rate (related to body surface area or to body weight) is approximately 25% of that in adults. The capacity of several different tubular transport systems is lower in the infant than in the adult (2;5;13;21;28).
A, Aperia, P, Herin
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Fluid and electrolyte balance

Nursing Standard, 2014
Assessment and careful maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance in patients is an essential part of the nurse's role. This article explores fluid and electrolyte balance with reference to the normal physiology of body fluids and regulation of fluids and electrolytes. It also considers some common conditions associated with fluid imbalance.
McLafferty, Ella   +3 more
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Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in Burns

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1953
No insult to the body equals a burn in intensity. A severe, untreated burn causes death by initiating incredibly large and rapid shifts of fluids. In burns as well as in other conditions associated with fluid derangements, present day therapy is based on the assumption that optimal care consists of the administration of fluids at the same rate and in ...
E, REISS   +4 more
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Water and electrolyte balance

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, 1966
W ater and electrolyte balance is of relatively little concern to the oral surgeon in the performance of routine minor office procedures, especially when the patient has been judged to bc in excellent physical condition. The traumatic effects of the surgical procedure and anesthesia are then minimal and transient and rarely cause untoward reactions ...
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Fluid and electrolyte balance

Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, 2021
Abstract The human body is made up principally of water, two-thirds of which is intracellular and one-third extracellular. Dissolved in body water are a variety of mineral and organic salts and proteins. These components are quantified in millimoles and are electrochemically balanced in each compartment.
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Fluid and Electrolyte Balance

2015
The goal of anesthesia providers when caring for surgical patients or the critically ill is to ensure adequate tissue perfusion and thus tissue oxygenation. Surgery and the stress of being ill result in an increased oxygen requirement, and if one does not have the ability to increase oxygen delivery, then the likelihood of infection, multiorgan failure,
Patrick Hackett, Michael P. Mangione
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