Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Noncritically Ill Adults

Abstract

Among noncritically ill adults treated with intravenous fluids in the emergency department, there was no difference in hospital-free days between treatment with balanced crystalloids and treatment with saline. (Funded by the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and others; SALT-ED ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02614040 .).

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SalineIntensive care unitMedicineIntensive care medicineCritically illAnesthesiaPhysiological salineInternal medicine

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Year: 2018
Type: article
Volume: 378
Issue: 9
Pages: 819-828
Citations: 1109
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                                    Wesley H. Self, 
                                
                                    Matthew W. Semler, 
                                
                                    Jonathan P. Wanderer
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Noncritically Ill Adults. 
                            New England Journal of Medicine
                            , 378
                            (9)
                            , 819-828.
                            https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1711586
                        

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DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1711586