Fluid resuscitation in acute illness - Time to reappraise the basics

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 2543-2544

  Myburgh, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HETASTARCH; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANEMIA; BOLUS INJECTION; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPEROSMOLARITY; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUNG EDEMA; MALARIA; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SHOCK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 79959792114     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1105490     Document Type: Editorial

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