Fluid management for the paediatric patient
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Recent developments in the perioperative fluid management for the paediatric patient.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Maintenance fluid therapy represents the volume of fluids and amount of electrolytes and glucose needed to replace anticipated physiological losses from breath, sweat and urine and to prevent hypoglycaemia. For 50 years, this therapy was based on Holliday and Segar's formula, which proposed to match children's water and electrolyte requirements on a weight-based calculation us...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03009965