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Why are IV bags always hung above the patient?
The IV bag is suspended above the patient to allow the fluid to be gravity fed .
What is the therapeutic gravity rate distance from IV fluid to patient?
48 inches
What are the precautions observed in adding the medication to IV fluids?
If you are adding a drug to IV fluid, you have to take all the aseptic precautions as you take for giving IV injection to the patient. Other wise patient will get bacteremia.
If patient diabetics and hypertension what is the choice IV fluid?
D5N2 i/v fluids
Why would a patient be on fluid restrictions who is on lipids pro cal and iv fluids?
because you dont want them to become fluid over loaded
What IV fluid would a nurse use for rehydration of patient with HHNK?
D5 1/2 ns
What does the ''IV'' in IV fluid stand for?
Intravenous fluid
What is in an IV bag?
It depends on what the IV is being used for. Most IV's start with a large amount of sterile, pure water then different electrolytes are added to give the IV fluid its properties that make it work on the body the way the doctor needs it to. The IV might also contain dextrose, a sugar needed by the body for fuel. There might also be different medications that are added to the IV fluid so those medications can be slowly administered to the patient.
Why can you have Edema after an IV?
You give IV fluid to the patient. Generally there are two types of fluids. IV normal saline or Ringer's lactate and 5 % dextrose. All of them have same osmotic pressure as the body fluid has got. But the dextrose is rapidly used by body to give you plane water. So the normal saline and Ringer's lactate solution is distributed across the extracellular compartment. Dextrose, that means plane water is distributed across the whole body fluid. Normal adult has got 14 liters of extracellular fluid and 28 liters of fluid inside the cells. You have the fluid in the body till kidneys excrete the same. Respective fluid spreads across the respective cellular compartment. It gives you edema.
What type of IV solution should you give someone who is dehydrated?
If you do not know what type to give, you should not be administering care to a patient.
What treatment will a burn patient receive for a burn?
Fluids are replaced there through an IV. This is vital since a patient in shock will die unless those lost fluids are replaced quickly. Antibiotics are given to combat infection since the burns make the body vulnerable to infection.
What is the recommended iv fluid bolus dose for a patient who achieves ROSC but is hypotensive during the post cardiac arrest period?
250 ml
