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. 2016 Aug;44(8):1541-4.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001941.

Saline Is Not the First Choice for Crystalloid Resuscitation Fluids

Matthew W Semler  1 , Todd W Rice
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Saline Is Not the First Choice for Crystalloid Resuscitation Fluids

Matthew W Semler et al. Crit Care Med. 2016 Aug.
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Forest plot illustrating the relative risk of acute kidney injury (boxes) and mortality (circles), with 95% confidence intervals, for saline compared with balanced crystalloids (adapted from Krajewski et al(5)). Definition and timing of acute kidney injury and mortality differ between studies, for details see: Wu et al (PubMed ID: 21645639), Berger et al (11089771), O’Malley et al (15845718), Young et al (23732264), Waters et al (11574339), Hadimioglu et al (18635497), Yunos et al (23073953), 0.9% Saline vs Plasma-Lyte 148® for ICU fluid Therapy (SPLIT) by Young et al (26444692), Shaw et al (22470070), Raghunathan et al (24674927). RCT = randomized controlled trial; Obs. = observational study.
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