History • Treatment Preparation
Symptoms
Lab Data
Your treatment choices are saline solutions with different amounts of salt (NaCl) that can be added to Clark's blood
and affect osmosis in the brain.
In medicine and veterinary medicine, saline solutions are compared with the normal concentration of sodium (~143
mmol/L) in healthy blood. Three saline solutions are available: isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic.
Diagnosis
Evaluation
Preparation
Hypothesis
Concentration of Sodium
Interpret each as higher, lower, or equal to normal
blood Nat concentration,
Conclusion
Lower
Equal Higher
Isotonic Saline
Hypotonic Saline
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0001
000
Hypertonic Saline
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