ABSTRACT: Fluid therapy has evolved dramatically from its origins in 17th-century blood transfusion experiments to sophisticated, modern, perioperative fluid management protocols. This comprehensive ...

Purpose: This study evaluates the primary hypothesis of red cell mass (RCM) dependent amplitude of homeostatically acceptable limits of fluctuation in plasma dilution by exploring the correlation ...

Lactated Ringer's solution yielded a similar composite risk of death or hospital readmission within 90 days as normal saline. A small absolute lower risk of 90-day mortality was seen, but it was not ...

This is a MedPage Today story. In late September, Hurricane Helene damaged a major supplier of intravenous (IV) fluids. In this report, we follow up on what has happened since. Hurricane Helene ...

YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — Nearly three months after Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina and the nation’s leading supplier of IV fluids, hospitals in southern Arizona are still feeling the impact.

It’s been about three months since Hurricane Helene pummeled the mountains of North Carolina, but its effects are still being felt well beyond the storm’s path. After the hurricane flooded a ...

COUNTRY -- BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF I-V FLUID. AS WMUR'S IMANI FLEMING EXPLAINS.. IT ALL STARTED IN OCTOBER. <EVERY HOSPITAL IN THE STATE HAS FELT THIS IMPACT> SOME áSURGERIESá.. CANCELLED... OR ...

Dec. 12—Gov. Chris Sununu urged the Biden administration to act more decisively to avert a crisis after some surgeries were recently canceled at three New Hampshire hospitals due to a chronic shortage ...

Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing site in Marion, N.C. — which produced 60% of the nation’s IV supply before Hurricane Helene — expects to share plans for gradually increasing IV fluid allocations ...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...