Facing the Shortage of IV Fluids — A Hospital-Based Oral Rehydration Strategy

Andrés Patiño, Regan H. Marsh, Eric J. Nilles, Christopher W. Baugh, S. Rouhani, Stephanie Kayden

New England Journal of Medicine · 2018 · 31 citations · 2 references

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Facing the Shortage of IV Fluids Emergency departments are substantial consumers of IV fluids, so in the face of the worsened U.S. saline shortage, a hospital ED team developed an oral rehydration protocol for patients with mild dehydration that has since been adopted hospital-wide.

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