Maintenance fluid therapy: what it is and what it is not
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Pediatric Nephrology
- Vol. 23 (5), 677-680
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-007-0610-3
Abstract
Fifty years after the publication of a prescription for maintenance fluid therapy, concerns have been raised about the use of hypotonic fluids in hospitalized children. We discuss what maintenance fluid therapy is or what it is not; where maintenance fluid therapy has been misused. We also discuss concerns with the immediate adoption of isotonic fluid as maintenance fluid without careful consideration and testing.Keywords
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