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All right welcome back to Behind the Knife. We are continuing today with fluids, electrolytes, and acid base as part of our Absight series.

These questions on the Absight and boards tend to be pretty straightforward, especially if you know the content.

As a reminder, this chapter is also in our Absite series published on Amazon.

Be sure to give it a look.

Okay, so let's get started. Let's just jump right into it with some fluid electrolytes and acid base.

Yeah, and we'll try and make this as least painful as possible.

I actually didn't realize how much of a percentage of the exam was fluid electrolytes

acid base.

So we'll try and hit the high points.

So we'll start setting our baseline of fluid stats so what what is our percentage of

total body water by weight in an adult so typically I think it's different for men or women. It depends on how much of your is body fat, but I think a typical equation is you take your body weight and

the fifth times 0.5 for men and 0.6 for women.

Yeah, and I think generally the exam will use 0.6.

I think that's the most widely accepted.

So for a 70 kilogram male, that would be 42 liters of total body water.

And what percentage of that is intracellular?

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