SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Mortality rates are reduced when patients with severe sepsis and septic shock are provided fluid resuscitation within 3 hours of onset, according to research presented here at ...

Controversy regarding the use of salt-containing solutions in surgery and trauma has continued for most of the 20th century. In 1911, Evans wrote: The therapeutic value of a physiologic saline ...

Additional analyses of an African study called Fluid Expansion as Supportive Therapy (FEAST) (N Engl J Med. 2011;364:2483-2495) point to an increased risk for death from cardiovascular collapse in ...

Sepsis remains a leading cause of critical illness worldwide, characterised by a dysregulated host response to infection that may progress to life-threatening organ dysfunction. Fluid resuscitation is ...

Taken together and in the context of previous observations with other starches of high molecular weight, these results confirm that HES administration does not carry any significant advantage over ...

Use of lactated Ringer solution for fluid resuscitation among patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) and vaso-occlusive episodes was associated with a small -- but significant -- improvement in ...

Among children treated for septic shock, use of balanced crystalloid fluid for resuscitation did not improve outcomes compared with 0.9% saline, a pragmatic trial showed. Across 47 emergency ...

"Our results provide some evidence that these patients can be safely volume resuscitated with 30 mL/kg of intravenous fluid when indicated without increased risk of causing adverse events when ...

Term neonates, children and young people are not given hypotonic fluids or glucose-containing fluids for intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation. There are safety concerns about the use of hypotonic IV ...

Abstract Williams, C. (2008) Fluid resuscitation in burn patients 1: using formulas. Nursing Times; 104: 14, 28–29. This is the first in a two-part unit on caring for patients with burns. It focuses ...

As mentioned in Chapter 1, the battlefield of the 21st century will likely differ from that of the past in scale and pace. The U.S. military expects that future battles will be fought by smaller ...