Search Tag: Albumin
2025 12 Mar
Sepsis is a major cause of mortality worldwide, with intravenous crystalloid infusion being the first-line treatment to maintain organ perfusion. However, fluid overload is associated with poor outcomes, and restrictive fluid therapy has not shown benefits. Albumin, due to its molecular properties, may help retain fluid intravascularly, but its 1Read more
2022 25 Aug
Sepsis is characterised by hypovolaemia and vasodilation. It is also characterised by organ dysfunction secondary to a dysregulated immune response of the host to the microbial pathogen. Prompt identification, early treatment with appropriate antibiotics, and fluid resuscitation can improve patient outcomes. Patients with cirrhosis and sepsis are 1Read more
2017 16 Mar
Serum albumin is an essential plasma protein, with a variety of homeostatic and predictive roles in health and disease (Figure 1) . Hypoalbuminaemia is common in critical illness. Human albumin solution has been administered clinically for more than five decades, but its use has been subject to marked controversy for the last twenty years (Fanali1Read more