Initial IV fluid therapy – Are we following GIFTASUP guidelines?

British Consensus Guidelines on Intravenous Fluid Therapy for Adult Surgical Patients (GIFTASUP): Cassandra's view.

Fluid Therapy Today: Where are We?

Why we have to measure cardiac output (CO), in selected high risk surgical patients? Because fluid test can be negative and further FC has to be avoided. This is mandatory and in thoracic anesthesia with the thorax open, the anesthetist cannot use hemodynamic dynamic indices (4, 5). Only a CO (or simply the stroke volume) measurement can help you to understand if the patient is a fluid responde...

Molecular Targets for Endometriosis Therapy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going?

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Are We Following the Recommendations of the Clinical Guidelines? Another Point of View.

The publication of the analysis by Vázquez Ruiz de Castroviejo et al shows the decisions made daily regarding ischemic heart disease treatment in real-world cardiology and cardiac surgery services in Spain. The published guidelines for myocardial revascularization offer the best scientific argument for outlining the indications for surgical and/or percutaneous treatment of the various clinical ...

A retrospective audit of fluid management in patients in an acute hospital and adherence to the GIFTASUP 2009 guidelines

Background Our audit entails the Intravenous fluids prescribed to postoperative patients by clinicians, predominantly the hospital-based interns, where they are analysed and compared with the GIFTASUP 2009 guidelines on prescribing. We gathered data on the attitudes and competency levels in prescribing of the interns, by directly surveying the intern population with questionnaires. We then outl...