While fluid administration is one of the most common therapeutic interventions in critical
care, it carries high potential for harm as overzealous fluid resuscitation may lead to …

Accumulation of a positive fluid balance is common in critically ill patients, and is associated
with adverse outcomes, including mortality. However, there are few randomised clinical trials …

Purpose Fluid overload is common in critical illness and is associated with mortality. This
study investigated the feasibility of a randomised trial comparing conservative fluid …

Objectives: To characterize current practice in fluid administration and deresuscitation
(removal of fluid using diuretics or renal replacement therapy), the relationship between fluid …

In patients with septic shock, the administration of fluids during initial hemodynamic
resuscitation remains a major therapeutic challenge. We are faced with many open …

Background It is unknown whether a conservative approach to fluid administration or
deresuscitation (active removal of fluid using diuretics or renal replacement therapy) is …

Fluid management goals differ during the resuscitation, optimization, stabilization and
evacuation phases of fluid resuscitation. To prevent fluid overload, strategies that reduce …

The administration of intravenous fluid to critically ill patients is one of the most common, but
also one of the most fiercely debated, interventions in intensive care medicine. Even though …

The need for early, rapid, and substantial fluid resuscitation in septic patients has long been
an article of faith in the intensive care community, a tribal totem that is taboo to question. The …

The administration of intravenous fluids for resuscitation is the most common intervention in
acute medicine. There is increasing evidence that the type of fluid may directly affect patient …