ACTIVITY 5

Name: Keith Charlotte M. Mallari Date:___________

Section: BSN 1-C (group7) Score:__________

Predict the expected results in these situations:

1. Justin is a nursing student. He’s been asked to inject his patient with 10cc of an
Isotonic preparation intravenously. Mistakenly, he inserts his patient with 10cc of pure
water. What is likely to happen to the RBC near the site of injection?

It must be Hypotonic because of the fact that giving large amounts of pure water injected
to your vein/body would cause your blood cells to become hypotonic, possibly leading to
death. And also pure water will cause red blood cell to swell up or to burst.

2. Julia is Justin’s patient. She is carefully watching him fill an I.V. bottle with
concentrated. (10%) the salt solution instead of the mixture from the pharmacy. Why
should she refuse to allow Justin to attach the IV bottle to her system?

It must be Hypertonic. The injection of 10% salt solution could lead to

many effects that are harmful to the body due to fact that concentrated salt
solution will cause patient's red blood cells to shrivel up due to water loss.

3. Justin is now assigned to the surgical unit. He is given a piece of living tissue and
asked to put it in fluid before taking the sample to the pathology lab. What essential
characteristic must such fluid have so that it will not damage any cells in the tissue?

It must be isotonic solution for the reason that there is no osmosis in to or out of the
tissue's cells. It must be buffered so that the pH will not change to any significant degree.
There's always the risk of the tissue breaking down due to enzymes in cell lysosomes so
the solution should be several degrees lower than normal body temperature to prevent
any enzyme activity.
Matching
Answer may be used more than once or not at all
Matching:
a. Brownian motion _B___1.
b. Diffusion _C___2.
c. Filtration __H_ 3.
d. Hydrostatic pressure __I__ 4.
e. Hypertonic __A__5.
f. Hypotonic __C_ 6.
g. Isotonic __E__7.
h. Osmosis __F_ 8.
i. Semipermeable G 9.
__B_10.

1. The tendency of matter to spread to areas of lower concentration.

2. Movement through a membrane driven by hydrostatic pressure gradients.
3. The term that describes the diffusion of water across a membrane explicitly.
4. The term that describes a membrane that allows only some types of particles to pass
through it.
5. The natural vibration of particles; it drives diffusion
6. In the kidney, blood pressure forces some water and solute particles from a blood
vessel
and into a kidney tubule. What is this kind of cell transport?
7. A cell is bathed in solution X. The cell quickly shrivels. What term describes solution
X
(when compared with the cell’s fluid)
8. Solution Q has a higher water content than cell Z. Therefore solution Q is _____ to
cell Z.
9. The saline (salt) solution is to be injected into a patient. The salt/water ratio should be
adjusted so that the saline solution is ____to the patient’s cell.
10. Particles of substance Y move into a cell because there are fewer particles inside
the cell
than outside. This is an example of _____
IDENTIFY
State whether each item is an example of diffusion, filtration, or active
transport.
Diffusion 1. Movement of water from an area of high concentration to an area of low
concentration.
Diffusion 2. Dye particles spread evenly through the water
Filtration 3. Starch particles pass through a paper membrane
Active Transport 4. A cell using energy to “pump” sugar molecules from its external
environment
Diffusion 5. Osmosis.

Sources: Seeley’s Essential of Anatomy and Physiology 10 th edition