§ From CO after delivery of placenta. bup: Bupivacaine; CD: Cesarean delivery; CI: Cardiac index; CO: Cardiac output; epi: Epinephrine; HB: Hyperbaric; IB: Isobaric ...

What are starch-based colloid fluids and how do they differ from saline-based crystalloid fluids? Saline is just salty water, whereas colloids are solutions that have large molecules in them. In this ...

Starch-based intravenous (IV) fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School ...

Intravenous fluid therapy is one way of managing reduced fluid intake by reducing its effects and replacing lost fluids. Recognising the signs and symptoms of fluid loss is necessary to identify the ...

Fluid replacement therapy (intravenous infusion of fluid) attempts to reverse the effects of hypovolaemia by increasing circulatory blood volume and blood pressure back towards normal, in order to ...