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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: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:15AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:15AM (#645588) Journal

    Normal saline sure as hell will get someone fired if they give it in big doses to someone suffering from water toxicity (hyponatraemia). From what I've read, restoring the osmotic balance to "normal" too quickly causes damage to the cells of the brain stem. Scary, and not something I'd *ever* have suspected would happen. I wonder how they found this out...

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 01 2018, @04:12AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 01 2018, @04:12AM (#645600) Journal

    I wonder how they found this out...

    The hard way, no doubt. Probably with "Ok, what did this guy die of?"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @02:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @02:10AM (#646163)

    As someone who was near death due to dehydration and was then quickly hydrated, do you remember where you heard that?

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 02 2018, @03:08AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday March 02 2018, @03:08AM (#646178) Journal

      This is the opposite problem: water poisoning, resulting in too little (hypo-) sodium (natr-) in the blood (-aemia).

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