NREMT Advanced EMT

Category - Medical Knowledge

You are in major trouble and cannot get to aid so you will have to count on your own training to survive. You will be needing fluids, but in the meantime your body will take fluids from where?
  1. Interstitial Spaces
  2. Intracellular Spaces
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B
Explanation
Answer - C - In a crisis, the body will pull fluids from the interstitial and intracellular spaces. These spaces represent 88% of the body’s total fluid volume. In a crisis, the body can draw on the is reservoir by closing the precapillary sphincters, drawing fluid from the interstitial spaces and cells into the capillary bed, and returning this fluid to the general circulation through the opened postcapillary venule.
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