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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:02PM (#645428)

    The proper way is with decibels. Well, you could use bels or centibels or millibels.

    dB B cB mB

    or even microbels

  • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:27PM

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:27PM (#645488) Journal

    Even in practices that have adopted logarithmic measurements, things get annoying fast. dBi, dBd, dBm, dBW, dBV, dBv/dBu, dB SPL, dB SIL, ad nauseam are all theoretically they are all dB. Then you can get down to the business of conflating power quantities and root-power quantities and have to explain that all these dBs are not necessarily cross compatible.