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There’s A Much Safer IV Liquid Than Saline, Suggests New Study

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

Fnord666 writes:

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 VLM on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:34PM

    by VLM (445) on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:34PM (#646012)

    Finally told them I would not pay and to never call me again. In hindsight, I should have told them that much sooner. There's not much they can do about it, now that medical debt doesn't much count against your credit rating any more.

    I had a girlfriend who had the same experience with a broken arm over about $1000 oh probably a quarter century ago. With medical inflation since then that's probably around $20000 now for the same xray and cast. She claims to have said something like "Well, I don't have any money so you're not getting any money and the debt will fall off my credit report years before I ever get any money or need a loan anyway, so don't bother me anymore" and it worked.

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