Should "normal" saline be our usual choice in normal surgical patients?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 290-291

  Butterworth, John F ^a   Mythen, Monty G ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION;

ACIDOSIS; CHOLERA; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACIDOSIS; CHLORIDES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84881354143     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828a73f1     Document Type: Editorial

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