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Maintenance fluid therapy and fluid creep impose more significant fluid, sodium, and chloride burdens than resuscitation fluids in critically ill patients: a retrospective study in a tertiary mixed…

Overview of attention for article published in Intensive Care Medicine, March 2018
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Title
Maintenance fluid therapy and fluid creep impose more significant fluid, sodium, and chloride burdens than resuscitation fluids in critically ill patients: a retrospective study in a tertiary mixed ICU population
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Intensive Care Medicine, March 2018
DOI 10.1007/s00134-018-5147-3
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Niels Van Regenmortel, Walter Verbrugghe, Ella Roelant, Tim Van den Wyngaert, Philippe G. Jorens

Abstract

Research on intravenous fluid therapy and its side effects, volume, sodium, and chloride overload, has focused almost exclusively on the resuscitation setting. We aimed to quantify all fluid sources in the ICU and assess fluid creep, the hidden and unintentional volume administered as a vehicle for medication or electrolytes. We precisely recorded the volume, sodium, and chloride burdens imposed by every fluid source administered to 14,654 patients during the cumulative 103,098 days they resided in our 45-bed tertiary ICU and simulated the impact of important strategic fluid choices on patients' chloride burdens. In septic patients, we assessed the impact of the different fluid sources on cumulative fluid balance, an established marker of morbidity. Maintenance and replacement fluids accounted for 24.7% of the mean daily total fluid volume, thereby far exceeding resuscitation fluids (6.5%) and were the most important sources of sodium and chloride. Fluid creep represented a striking 32.6% of the mean daily total fluid volume [median 645 mL (IQR 308-1039 mL)]. Chloride levels can be more effectively reduced by adopting a hypotonic maintenance strategy [a daily difference in chloride burden of 30.8 mmol (95% CI 30.5-31.1)] than a balanced resuscitation strategy [daily difference 3.0 mmol (95% CI 2.9-3.1)]. In septic patients, non-resuscitation fluids had a larger absolute impact on cumulative fluid balance than did resuscitation fluids. Inadvertent daily volume, sodium, and chloride loading should be avoided when prescribing maintenance fluids in view of the vast amounts of fluid creep. This is especially important when adopting an isotonic maintenance strategy.

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Unknown 194 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 35 18%
Researcher 22 11%
Student > Postgraduate 16 8%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 7%
Other 41 21%
Unknown 50 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 104 54%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 3%
Linguistics 2 1%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 1%
Other 13 7%
Unknown 57 29%
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