Osmosis and Medicine: Why Is Saline Used for Intravenous (IV) Fluids?
How do various solution concentrations affect water flow into and out of cells? In this simulation, you’ll investigate the principles of osmosis and will discover how maintaining osmotic balance with saline IV fluids is essential for cellular homeostasis and patient safety.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- osmosis
- passive transport
- isotonic
- hypertonic
- hypotonic
- diffusion
- concentration gradient
- concentration
- equilibrium
- net movement
- tonicity
- dialysis tubing
- molarity
- change in mass
- plant cell
- animal cell
- ions
- molecules
- cell membrane
- selectively permeable membrane
- semipermeable membrane
- solution concentration
- solvent
- solute
- line graph
- bar graph
- histogram
- hydrophilic
- hydrophobic
- IV fluids
- medicine
- polarity