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Upon completion of the activities, the perfusionist should have mastered the below stated objectives with 100 percent accuracy:

1. To define the terms used to describe various solutions used as primes, additives or parenteral infusions. These terms include: solution, solvent, solute, crystalloid, colloid, suspension, percent, molarity, equivalency, normality, osmolarity, toxicity

2. To calculate concentrations, concentration changes, and to convert one form of concentration to any other appropriate concentration

3. To explain the physiological importance of the water, crystalloid and colloid constituents of various parenteral solutions used as primes for extracorporeal circulation devices