Lactated Ringer's solution yielded a similar composite risk of death or hospital readmission within 90 days as normal saline. A small absolute lower risk of 90-day mortality was seen, but it was not ...

ORLANDO, Florida — Using a low-chloride, balanced crystalloid solution for all intravenous (IV) fluids received by patients who received a deceased donor kidney transplant resulted in significantly ...

Using a crystalloid solution during surgery was better than saline for improving deceased donor kidney transplant outcomes, according to the BEST-Fluids trial. Compared with standard saline IV fluids, ...

Fluid therapy with a buffered crystalloid solution does not reduce the risk for acute kidney injury (AKI) or kidney failure relative to saline among intensive care unit (ICU) patients who need ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — In deceased donor kidney transplant recipients, IV fluid therapy with balanced crystalloid solution ...

What are starch-based colloid fluids and how do they differ from saline-based crystalloid fluids? Saline is just salty water, whereas colloids are solutions that have large molecules in them. In this ...

Simulation of the distribution of 1.5 L of isotonic saline infused over 30 min in (A) healthy awake sheep and (B) septic anesthetized sheep. No effects of adrenergic receptor stimulation are included.

Vitamin C May Improve Anemia Care Study investigators estimated that 1 case of delayed graft function would be prevented for every 10 patients treated with balanced crystalloid solution. Perioperative ...

The case description below highlights issues raised in an upcoming Critical Care Medicine article. A 77-year old man is in the ICU with septic shock and is on mechanical ventilation. Despite ...

Starch-based IV fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & ...