If 140 liters of plasma are filtered in a day and the filtra

If 140 liters of plasma are filtered in a day, and the filtration fraction is 20%:

(a) What is the renal plasma flow?

(b) If this person has a hematocrit of 30%, what is the renal blood flow?

(c) If renal blood flow is 20% of this person’s cardiac output, what is her cardiac output in L/min?

Solution

Renal plasma flow is the volume of the blood plasma delivered to the kidneys per unit time

b) The renal blood flow for a person with 30% hematacrit it 750ml/min