Third Space Shift

Medical dictionary for the health professions and nursing farlex 2012.

Third space shift. Third spacing is the abnormal accumulation of fluid into an extracellular and extravascular space. Thĭrd spās ing shift of fluid from the intravascular space to a nonfunctional space e g abdomen or thorax. This can cause potentially seri ous problems such as edema reduced cardiac output and hypotension.

Third spacing refers to a situation in which fluid shifts out of the blood into a body cavity or tissue where it is no longer available as ciculating fluid. In simpler terms the fluid leaves the intravascular space and leaks into another compartment where it can t really do anything useful for your patient. In this article i ll describe why third spacing.

Third spacing is a shift of fluid into the interstitial spaces where there is little fluid normally perfusing. Normally fluid moves freely between these three spaces to maintain fluid balance see water water everywhere. Third space fluid shift is the mobilization of body fluid to a non contributory space rendering it unavailable to the circulatory system.

Told you it was coming loss of ecf into a space that does not contribute to equilibrium between the icf and ecf is referred to as a third space fluid shift or third spacing for short for my students this info is taken from your smeltzer book chapter 14. Best of milwaukee 2017 2018 2019 third space brewing voted best microbrewery in milwaukee in the shepherd express best of milwaukee poll in back to back to back years. Third spacing is the physiological concept that body fluids may collect in a third body compartment that isn t normally perfused with fluids.

This patient differs from the pt with generalized edema because the third spacing is just that. Third space won a bronze medal in 2018 in the imperial ipa category for unbridled enthusiasm juicy double ipa the first wi beer to win an ipa medal at gabf. Because it is in the third space.

All the fluid has shifted from the other compartments and although they look all puffy and full of fluid they are actually hypovolemic. In medicine the term is often used with regard to loss of fluid into interstitial spaces such as with burns or edema but it can also refer to fluid shifts into a body cavity transcellular space such as ascites and pleural effusions. Third spacing occurs when too much fluid moves from the intravascular space blood vessels into the interstitial or third space the nonfunctional area between cells.