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Episode 51: Resuscitating and deresuscitating with hypertonic saline, with Sean Barnett

Critical Care Scenarios

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Is There a Transient Effect?

Three % saline is hyper tonic. Imay admit it would make sense that there's a transient effect of kind of drawing in additional fluid into the inter vascular space, and ino getting sort of more prelod than of the actual volume you gave. Of ye, it could be so transient that your knocking notice much improvement other than, you know, 30 minutes to an hour in my experience. It actually is pretty pronounced that you're going to get at least a one to two hour type of benefit out of it, potentially more than that.

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