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Balanced Fluid Resuscitation for the Critically-Ill: the PLUS study mirrors the BaSICS

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What they did Adult patients admitted to one of 53 intensive care units in New Zealand or Australia between September 2017 and December 2020 were eligible. Patients were thus excluded if they had indications for a specific type of IV fluid resuscitation or if they had received more than 500 mL of IV fluid in the ICU.

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Less is More. Again: Speed of IV Fluid Administration in Pancreatitis (WATERFALL Trial)

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There are also potential harms to large volume fluid resuscitation including progression of pancreatitis and fluid overload with or without respiratory failure. Though the initial recommendation for aggressive fluid resuscitation was not based on substantial evidence, clinicians have been slow to pivot away from this approach.

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

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Ann Emerg Med 2017 [6] This was a retrospective database review of 7521 traumatic brain injury patients SBP target ≥90mmHg resulted in a mortality of 7.8% CRYSTALLOIDS Too much crystalloid resuscitation in traumatic hemorrhagic shock can increase dilutional coagulopathy, as well as increase morbidity and mortality Bickell WH et al.

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Electrical injuries

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The high voltage can cause direct thermal injuries, as well as mechanical injuries from falls or secondary trauma. Judicious fluid resuscitation is critical; patients may become volume-deplete due to fluid loss/oedema secondary to burns. Pittman O, Toner H. Narayanan, K., and Marijon, E., Electrical injury. 531-537.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Vasoactive Drug use in Children with Septic Shock

Don't Forget the Bubbles

And lastly, it’s actually quite hard to see how well the cardiovascular system is working, and this is one of its measurable features. This works well for a while, but eventually, the heart beats too fast to fill adequately. So, fluid has been tried but has not got close to fixing the problem. What are vasoactive drugs?

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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

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Fluid resuscitation should be initiated. However, a 2017 study of 34 patients suggests that balloon tamponade, when used as a bridge to EGD, improves patient mortality, with 59 percent of patients surviving to hospital discharge. Sleep well, endoscopist: January 2021 Annals of Emergency Medicine journal club.

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Case Report: a High-Voltage Victim

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Treatment for burns should focus on fluid resuscitation as appropriate based on your institution’s burn protocol per Brooke, Parkland, Rule of 10s etc. Lastly, vessels can be damaged by internal burns, which may lead to poor perfusion and delayed complications as thrombosis or third spacing. McGraw Hill; 2016. Electrical injuries.

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