Crystalloid vs Colloid: What's the 'Solution'? The first choice made when selecting a resuscitation fluid is whether to use a crystalloid or colloid solution. While there are really only 2 types of ...

(HealthDay News) – For patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with hypovolemic shock, 28-day mortality is not significantly different with use of colloids vs. crystalloids for fluid ...

Costly colloids were no more effective than less-expensive crystalloids in reducing the risk for death when used to resuscitate patients with significant blood loss, according to a study published ...

Djillali Annane, M.D., Ph.D., of Raymond Poincare Hospital, Garches, France, and colleagues conducted a study to compare the effects of 2 types of intravenous fluids on survival for critically ill ...

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 ...

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 ...

Urine is a highly saturated solution of extremely complicated composition. Its basic organic constituents are urea, uric acid and its salts, formed by the oxidation of purines. In that fluid, ...

Starch-based 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 of Hygiene & ...

Researchers have conducted a study to compare the effects of 2 types of intravenous fluids on survival for critically ill patients in an intensive care unit. Djillali Annane, M.D., Ph.D., of Raymond ...