Medical-surgical Nursing Demystified

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Fluids and Electrolytes


CHAPTER 11


Capillary

Tissue

Hydrostatic pressure
40 mm Hg

Arterial end

Venous end

Oncotic pressure
25 mm Hg Hydrostatic pressure10 mm Hg

Interstitial
hydrostatic
pressure
1 mm Hg

Interstitial
oncotic
pressure
1 mm Hg

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