500 cc = 500 ml = 1/2 liter
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An IV fluid bag typically contains 1000 milliliters (mL) of fluid. One milliliter of water weighs approximately 1 gram, which is equivalent to 0.03527396 ounces. Therefore, a 1000 mL IV fluid bag would contain approximately 35.27 ounces of fluid.
It will take 125 minutes for the half liter of saline to run out, as 500 cc is equal to 500 mL. Given that the saline is administered at a rate of 4.0 mL/min, you divide 500 mL by 4.0 mL/min to get 125 minutes.
You give IV fluid to the patient. Generally there are two types of fluids. IV normal saline or Ringer's lactate and 5 % dextrose. All of them have same osmotic pressure as the body fluid has got. But the dextrose is rapidly used by body to give you plane water. So the normal saline and Ringer's lactate solution is distributed across the extracellular compartment. Dextrose, that means plane water is distributed across the whole body fluid. Normal adult has got 14 liters of extracellular fluid and 28 liters of fluid inside the cells. You have the fluid in the body till kidneys excrete the same. Respective fluid spreads across the respective cellular compartment. It gives you edema.
IV units are typically referred to as IV bags or IV solutions, and they contain fluids and medications that are administered intravenously to patients.