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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: 2) by VLM on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:42PM (1 child)
LOL treasurer and doing first aid training kept them off my back WRT not being an asst scoutmaster or whatever the official title is.
Some of the den mother women were nuts; this is supposed to be for the kids, not a single mother dating program. My wife would come to meeting with me (bodyguard, LOL?) and still the den mothers would flirt with me, which deserves points for effort if nothing else.
Boy scouts gets more political in the sense of small group politics not national politics as discussed here; I can't volunteer as a mentor for the programming merit badge because the scoutmasters little sibling who is also a programmer would treat that as a personal insult, etc etc.
There is very little training at the national level for treasurer past the background check / safety stuff everyone has to take, you pretty much have to learn it yourself which is weird. If you're in direct leadership role or what to get the camping endorsement or whatever theres tons of physical and online classes, but scout treasurers make it up as they go along, unless its very recently changed...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @07:02AM
asst scoutmaster
When I was a kid, that was an Asst. Cubmaster.
Though they've changed some things, I expect it still is.
Boy scouts
That would be where they start calling them Scoutmasters.
the scoutmaster[']s little sibling who is also a programmer would treat that as a personal insult
Life is politics.
You don't have to go far before you trip over that.
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