This volume is regulated by the movement of free water. The extracellular fluid compartment volume.
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Measurement of body fluid compartment volumes. The icf makes up about 60 percent of the total water in the human body and in an average size adult male the icf accounts for about 25 liters seven gallons of fluid. University of kentucky department of anesthesiology 5062 views 2943. Compartment volumes are measured by determining the volume of distribution of a tracer. This is estimated by measuring the volume of distribution of isotopes of water. If you know plasma volume and hematocrit of blood volume that is made up by cells total blood volume can be calculated. 100 38 5645 ml.
The everything else synovial fluid. Intracellular fluid 33 231 litres. 222 total body water. If the amount of the substance is known and the resulting concentration is measured the volume can be calculated. 3500 x 100. 20150921 fluid compartments regulation of ecf volume fluid replacement duration.
This is estimated by measuring the volume of distribution of isotopes of water. Measurement of body fluid compartment volumes the volumes of body fluid compartments are measured with a method based on the principle of dilution. An approach to the measurement of body fluid compartment volumes in non steadyconditions in the rat. Measurement of compartment volumes 221. This fluid volume tends to be very stable because the amount of water in living cells is closely regulated. The fluid compartment volume.
The indicator dilution principle is based on the definition of a concentration. This fluid volume tends to be very stable because the amount of water in living cells is closely regulated. The icf makes up about 60 percent of the total water in the human body and in an average size adult male the icf accounts for about 25 liters seven gallons of fluid figure 3. For example isotopic water. Measurement of body fluid compartments body fluid compartments can be measured by dilution of a compound that distributes only in the space of interest. Compartment volumes are measured by determining the volume of distribution of a tracer.
This volume is regulated by the movement of sodium. 22 measurement of compartment volumes 221 the dilution principle. A marker substance is selected whose physical characteristics are such that it distributes only in the body fluid compartment whose volume you wish to calculate. Extracellular fluid 27 189 litres. A method has been developed by which body fluid volume changes can be assessedfrequently after only one initial injection of the appropriate radioactivetracers.