Intravenous 0.9% saline and general surgical patients: A problem, not a solution

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 830-832

  Lobo, Dileep N ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLERA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; CRYSTALLOID; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM RETENTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

CARDIOPLEGIC SOLUTIONS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GLUCONATES; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ACETATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84859918488     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318250766c     Document Type: Editorial

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