Electrolyes, balances, etc - HELP!

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Specializes in Rehabilitation; LTC; Med-Surg.

Hi everyone, I'm a first-semester LVN student and I'm having issues remembering the IV solutions and what's isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic. It's just not "sticking" right now - could be because finals are a week away, who knows. If you have any suggestions for making this easy to remember, or just something helpful in general, let me know.

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

sure. there is a file of the commonly used iv solutions which has this information that you can open up and print out the chart:

this post has an explanation of hypotonic, isotonic and hypertonic iv solutions including a link to a long list of iv solutions that fits into each of those categories:

for information on starting ivs or other iv information, see the links at

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