BTK ABSITE 2023 - Fluids and Electrolytes
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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How to Increase Intravascular Volume With Colloid Solutions
I think the easiest way is use the weight plus 40. So I would put them in 120 milliliters an hour. If it's a name center, 14 kilograms, it should be D5 half normal plus 20 K. Okay. Then we have our colloid solutions and we won't spend a lot of time on this. They've generally been shown to have no benefit over crystalloids in almost every indication. There's still some controversy for sepsis but otherwise generally they're just more expensive. But how do colloids increase your intravascular volume?
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