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posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-a-drip dept.

Would it be wise for many hospitals to replace saline with balanced fluids for hospitalized patients? It appears so. Doing such a move might significantly reduce mortality and morbidity, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Matthew W. Semler during a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

The study involved 28,000 patients at Vanderbilt University who were given either saline-based IV bags or balanced fluid variants. They found that for every 100 patients on balanced fluids, there was one fewer death or critical kidney damage. Yes, 1 percent doesn't seem a dramatic reduction — but when viewed at a grander scale, that could mean up to 70,000 fewer deaths and 100,000 fewer incidents of kidney problems annually in the United States.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/222043/20180228/a-new-study-suggests-there-s-a-much-safer-iv-liquid-than-saline.htm


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:12PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:12PM (#645434)

    There's a standard for levels of permissible contaminants in IV fluids, and it's pretty horrid to think about some of the permissible stuff floating around your bloodstream and clogging up capillaries in random, often critical, organs.

    I'm willing to believe that "more balanced" fluids can lead to better outcome, but how about "more cleaner" saline as compared to standard medical grade stuff.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:29PM (#645446)

    you believe in homeopathy ? cause there is almost as much médecine in an homeopathic dilution that there are contaminants in isotonic saline USP (not more than .05ng per ml)