Search Tag: fluids
2025 20 Mar
The MINUTES bundle was discussed in one of the sessions @ISICEM in Brussels. The MINUTES bundle is a structured approach designed to guide healthcare professionals in the initial 30-minute management of patients presenting with undifferentiated circulatory shock. The acronym stands for M aintain ABCs, IN fuse vasopressors and/or fluids, IN vestigate,...Read more
2024 30 Apr
A recent study investigates the clinical factors influencing clinician decisions regarding fluid administration, vasopressor initiation, and vasopressor route in early sepsis. Previous concerns about fluid overload in sepsis have prompted interest in early vasopressor initiation, especially through peripheral IVs, as an alternative to central lines....Read more
2018 16 Oct
Shock is an emergency, and if it is not treated, it will mostly be fatal. Early intervention and admission to the ICU is essential. Our cover story considers several aspects of shock, including pathophysiology and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome, as well as source control, fluids, differentiation using point-of-care ultrasound and vasoactive medication....Read more
2016 27 Sep
Professor Gernot Marx is Director of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, University Hospital Aachen, and Professor of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. Dr. Marx is a member of the Intensive Care Medicine Scientific Subcommittee of the European Society...Read more
2016 07 Jun
The current vague recommendations on continued fluid therapy in sepsis result in differences in fluid therapy, according to a paper that reports on a post hoc analysis of the Scandinavian Starch for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock (6S) trial database. Peter Buhl Hjortrup from the Department of Intensive Care, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark with...Read more
2015 31 Dec
This article focuses on the type of fluid available and respective indications in the course of trauma resuscitation according to the situation: haemorrhagic shock, trauma brain injury. In trauma patients, fluid resuscitation aims at preventing a cardiac arrest due to severe hypovolaemia and at achieving a satisfying level of mean arterial pressure...Read more
2015 08 Oct
Use of a buffered crystalloid for fluid therapy, compared with saline, did not reduce the incidence of acute kidney injury or failure for intensive care unit (ICU) patients, according to new research presented at the 28th annual congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. The findings are also published in JAMA . Although 0.9 percent...Read more
2013 11 Oct
Djillali Annane, M.D., Ph.D., of Raymond Poincare Hospital, Garches, France, and colleagues conducted a study to compare the effects of 2 types of intravenous fluids on survival for critically ill patients in an intensive care unit. Thousands of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) throughout the world are treated every day with intravenous...Read more