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 ...

Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a life-threatening disease. Fluid Resuscitation Via Colon (FRVC) may be a complementary therapy for early controlled fluid resuscitation. But its clinical ...

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 ...

Resuscitation with 6% hydroxyethyl starch (HES) is just as effective as resuscitation with 0.9% saline, according to results of a trial published online October 17 in the New England Journal of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catherine Williams, PGCE, MSc, BSc, DipN, RNT, RN, is nurse tutor, school of health science, Swansea University. It is well established that fluid management is fundamental when treating burn patients ...

"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 ...

Fluid resuscitation is a fundamental intervention in the treatment of critically ill patients. However, there is little conclusive evidence to guide clinicians about the best type of resuscitation ...

Belmont Medical Technologies ("Belmont"), a leading provider of fluid-resuscitation and patient-temperature management ...

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 ...