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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @02:10AM (1 child)
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
This is the opposite problem: water poisoning, resulting in too little (hypo-) sodium (natr-) in the blood (-aemia).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...