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- Title
Focus on fluid therapy and nutritional support.
- Authors
Arabi, Yaseen M.; Perner, Anders
- Abstract
An editorial is presented in which the authors discuss the progress regarding the use nutritional support and fluid therapy in critically ill patients. Topics include the Fluid Expansion as Supportive Therapy (FISH) trial showing the increased mortality with saline boluses or albumin compared to no fluid boluses, the clinical benefit of using hydroxyethyl starch (HES), and the need to standardized the indications for fluid resuscitation.
- Subjects
FLUID therapy; CRITICALLY ill; CRITICAL care medicine; CLINICAL trials; HYDROXYETHYL starch
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2018, Vol 44, Issue 12, p2271
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-018-5429-9