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Review
. 2019 Sep;63(9):729-736.
doi: 10.4103/ija.IJA_493_19.

Perioperative fluid therapy and intraoperative blood loss in children

Neerja Bhardwaj  1
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Review

Perioperative fluid therapy and intraoperative blood loss in children

Neerja Bhardwaj. Indian J Anaesth. 2019 Sep.

Abstract

Fluid and blood administration are required during surgery in children. The type, amount and tonicity of the intravenous fluids is an important aspect to be considered during anaesthesia management. The physiological differences between adults and children regarding the body water and blood volume needs to be understood. We performed a PUBMED search for English language articles using keywords including 'children', 'intravenous fluid therapy', 'crystalloids', 'colloids', 'fluid homeostasis', 'Starling equation', 'Donnan effect', 'blood loss', 'estimation of blood loss', 'blood management program'. This review discusses the physiological basis, historical background, risk of hyponatraemia, need of glucose in the intravenous fluids as well as the recent concepts in blood transfusion as related to children.

Keywords: Blood loss; Donnan effect; Starling equation; blood management program; children; colloids; crystalloids; estimation of blood loss; fluid homeostasis; intravenous fluid therapy.

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