Colloid osmotic pressure

Plasma colloid osmotic pressure in healthy infants

BACKGROUND The plasma colloid osmotic pressure (COP) plays a major role in transcapillary fluid balance. There is no information on plasma COP of healthy infants beyond the first post-natal week. The normal COP in healthy adult subjects (25 mmHg) is currently also applied as a reference value for healthy infants. This study was designed to test whether plasma COP values in healthy infants are t...

The colloid osmotic pressure of serum.

Interstitial Fluid Colloid Osmotic Pressure in Healthy Children

OBJECTIVE The colloid osmotic pressure (COP) of plasma and interstitial fluid play important roles in transvascular fluid exchange. COP values for monitoring fluid balance in healthy and sick children have not been established. This study set out to determine reference values of COP in healthy children. MATERIALS AND METHODS COP in plasma and interstitial fluid harvested from nylon wicks was ...

Colloid osmotic pressure and the formation of posttraumatic cerebral edema.

IN the beginning, it was “Run ’em dry for Neurosurgery.” It was the fervent (but empiric) belief of many clinicians that all crystalloid administration aggravated edema in injured brain, and, as a result, aggressive fluid restriction was commonly the standard. But then, the evolution of cerebral blood flow methodology begat the awareness that the common cerebral injury states, including traumat...

Stability of Colloid Osmotic Pressure of Serum Protein By

The work of earlier investigators, Govaerts (1), Barath (2), Cope (3), Peters et al. (4) and Kylin (5) has given the impression that the colloid osmotic pressure is not only lowered with decrease in serum protein but its specific pressure (pressure per unit of protein) is also diminished. The lowering of specific pressure has usually been related to a greater decrease in the albumin fraction of...