Lactated Ringer's solution yielded a similar composite risk of death or hospital readmission within 90 days as normal saline. A small absolute lower risk of 90-day mortality was seen, but it was not ...

ORLANDO, Florida — Using a low-chloride, balanced crystalloid solution for all intravenous (IV) fluids received by patients who received a deceased donor kidney transplant resulted in significantly ...

Fluid therapy with a buffered crystalloid solution does not reduce the risk for acute kidney injury (AKI) or kidney failure relative to saline among intensive care unit (ICU) patients who need ...

Using a crystalloid solution during surgery was better than saline for improving deceased donor kidney transplant outcomes, according to the BEST-Fluids trial. Compared with standard saline IV fluids, ...

ORLANDO — In deceased donor kidney transplant recipients, IV fluid therapy with balanced crystalloid solution reduced delayed graft function compared with saline solution, according to a presenter at ...

What are starch-based colloid fluids and how do they differ from saline-based crystalloid fluids? Saline is just salty water, whereas colloids are solutions that have large molecules in them. In this ...

Vitamin C May Improve Anemia Care Study investigators estimated that 1 case of delayed graft function would be prevented for every 10 patients treated with balanced crystalloid solution. Perioperative ...

Starch-based intravenous (IV) fluids used by the NHS to treat seriously ill patients are causing unnecessary deaths, according to a new Cochrane systematic review by researchers at the London School ...