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Name thevarious substances used to estimate ECF volume?????

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  #2

Sulfate, Inulin, and mannitol

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  #3

sodium as well

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  #4

Chloride and glucose too!!

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How about Blood volume, Plasma Volume and toal body water???

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  #5

for plasme volume, its radio-iodone labelled serum albumin and evan's blue. for total body volume, tritiated water and D2O.
blood vloume = plasma volume/(1-hematocrit)

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grin

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  #7

TBW-antipyrine ,D3O
ECF -inulin, mannose, sucrose--1/3
plasma-evans blue ,albumin
ICF-x-2/3
ISF-x-2/3 of ECF
Vas is 1/3 of ECF

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  #8

remember doc's,

They can also ask indirect measurements too (for ICF )







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