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S4 Ep76: IV Fluids - Salty and Sweet

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How to Choose Between Bolosing and Making Fluids With a Child

The first thing you really need to think about is what is your patient's volume status? And I would say based on kind of this presentation, our patient is pretty volume-deplete. So his vital signs, including his tachycardia and his low blood pressure, the history you've got. All of those things together would suggest that he is in need of some serious volume rehydration and some kind of restoration of his volume status. We want to replete them because they're looking, you know, pretty sick. What do we pick and how are we getting it in them? Perfect. Now let's start with being less invasive by talking about oral rehydration fluid.

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