Baseline demographics of the participants as gathered from the post-intervention questionnaire are seen in Table 1. Participants indicated that they were most comfortable using the ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

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 ...

Dengue shock syndrome is characterized by severe vascular leakage and disordered hemostasis and progresses to death in 1 to 5 percent of cases. Although volume replacement is recognized as the ...

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 ...

Adults hospitalized with sepsis who received timely antibiotics delivery and fluid resuscitation showed higher discharge rates to the home, according to a March study published in Chest. The study ...

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 ...