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The Role of Sodium in Maintenance Fluids
In a healthy child with normal lungs, you're going to have to get them at least 10 to 15% volume overloaded. In the correct clinical setting, depending on what fluids you're getting, it can kind of assist with the development of hyponatremia. There's about a thousand different decisions that go into the choice of actual maintenance fluids. And so my approach actually is to be a little bit more individualized in terms of what I think a patient's risk for hyponatremeia or really their risk of dysnatremia.