Fluid Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Administration of high-dose interleukin-2 in a 2-year-old with metastatic melanoma.

13 Dec 2009 Malignant melanoma is rare in pediatrics, and therapies for patients with disseminated disease have not been well studied. This report describes our experience with the use of high-dose interleukin 2 (aldesleukin, IL-2) in a 2-year-old child with ... Read more...

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal of this concise review is to provide an overview of some of the most important resuscitation and monitoring issues and approaches that are unique to burn patients compared with the general intensive care unit population. STUDY ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Fluid Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Administration of high-dose interleukin-2 in a 2-year-old with metastatic melanoma. 13 Dec 2009
• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Update on emerging infections: news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalized patients with novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection--California, April-May, 2009. 30 Oct 2009
• Levosimendan in early sepsis: when good ideas give poor results. 30 Oct 2009
• Poor nations are told to scale up strategies to prevent and treat diarrhoea in children. 12 Oct 2009
• Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours. 29 Sep 2009
• Acute left ventricular dilation and septic shock-induced myocardial dysfunction. 29 Sep 2009
• Diagnosis and management of dehydration in children. 29 Sep 2009
• Efficacy of single-bolus administration of sodium bicarbonate to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with mild renal insufficiency undergoing an elective coronary procedure. 29 Sep 2009
• Dimenhydrinate in children with infectious gastroenteritis: a prospective, RCT. 12 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 2009
• [Emergencies in hematology and oncology] 8 Sep 2009
• [Case of neurocardiogenic syncope with asystole during insertion of epidural catheter] 30 Aug 2009
• Does GI physiology support the rationale behind switching from oral rehydration solution to intravenous saline preparations in the management of children with acute severe diarrhea? 30 Aug 2009
• A simulation for teaching the basic and clinical science of fluid therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Chlorine dioxide-induced acute hemolysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Kidney stones. Preventing formation. 30 Aug 2009
• Lyophilized plasma for resuscitation in a swine model of severe injury. 30 Aug 2009
• The renal effect of replacement fluids in controlled severe hemorrhagic shock: an experimental study. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy: an overview. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Fluid Therapy'

Definition: Therapy whose basic objective is to restore the volume and composition of the body fluids to normal with respect to WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE. Fluids may be administered intravenously, orally, by intermittent gavage, or by HYPODERMOCLYSIS.

Descriptor UI: D005440

Alternative terms: Fluid Therapy; Therapy, Fluid; Fluid Therapies; Therapies, Fluid; Oral Rehydration Therapy; Therapy, Oral Rehydration; Rehydration Therapy, Oral; Oral Rehydration Therapies; Rehydration Therapies, Oral; Therapies, Oral Rehydration; Rehydration; Rehydrations; Oral Rehydration; Oral Rehydrations; Rehydrations, Oral; Rehydration, Oral;

Related Mesh Headings: Rehydration Solutions;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E02.319.360;

History Note: 79

Technical Notes: "to restore volume & composition of body fluids...with respect to water-electrolyte balance"; for other nourishment use PARENTERAL FEEDING or specifics; do not use /util except by MeSH definition; coord IM with dis /ther (IM), not dis /diet ther; do not specify route of admin unless particularly significant (& then only NIM)