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 ...

Identify the care burn patients require, and the complications of inadequate fluid resuscitation Recognise signs and symptoms of burn encephalopathy in infants, children and adolescents The most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Historically, one fifth of all injured combatants die in battle. Although this number has varied significantly depending on the specific campaign, 20 percent has been the mean mortality rate among ...