
#103 Fluids: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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How Much Does a Blood Transfusion Really End Up in the Blood Vascular Space?
How much does a blood transfusion actually end up in the inter vasculo space? And does it pull along water like colloids? Sack, we're often n the business of trying to either take off fluids or tryi to really buff up someone's effective blood volume. What if i told you that when you could give a leader of normal saline, only a quarter of it actually stays in bood vessels? That was my reaction too. I definitely did not understand that before working on this episode.
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