FİZ690 Advanced physiology9- Fluid-electrolit metabolism

Information

Course Goal / Objective

To learn the fluid-electrolyte metabolism in the body

Course Content

The Body Fluid Compartments: Extracellular and Intracellular Fluids; Interstitial Fluid and Edema; During Steady-State Conditions; Constituents of Extracellular and Intracellular Fluids; Important Constituents of the Intracellular Fluid; Measurement of Fluid Volumes in the Different Body Fluid Compartments; Regulation of Fluid Exchange and Osmotic Equilibrium Between Intracellular and Extracellular Fluid; Basic Principles of Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure; Volume and Osmolality of Extracellular and Intracellular Fluids in Abnormal States; Volume and Osmolality of Extracellular and Intracellular Fluids in Abnormal States; Clinical Abnormalities of Fluid Volume Regulation: Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia; Causes of Hyponatremia: Excess Water or Loss of Sodium; Causes of Hypernatremia: Water Loss or Excess Sodium; Edema: Excess Fluid in the Tissues; Intracellular Edema; Extracellular Edema; Summary of Causes of Extracellular Edema; Safety Factors That Normally Prevent Edema Fluids in the Potential Spaces of the Body.

Course Precondition

To have taken undergraduate human physiology course

Resources

Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th Edition

Notes

Articles on the subject

Course Learning Outcomes

Relation with Program Learning Outcome

Week Plan

Student Workload - ECTS