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.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)
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)
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday March 01 2018, @01:05AM
Are you sure:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/26935/20150116/fda-begins-investigation-on-contaminated-saline-solutions.htm [techtimes.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.