Limits of goal-directed fluid therapy or limits of fluid restriction?

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¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: tuong.phan@svha.org.au.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia.
³ Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia.

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Tuong D Phan et al. Br J Anaesth. 2022 Jan.

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. 2022 Jan;128(1):e22-e23.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.09.041. Epub 2021 Nov 13.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: tuong.phan@svha.org.au.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia.
³ Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia.

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Keywords: cardiac output; goal-directed therapy; intravenous fluid; major surgery; postoperative outcome.

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Declarations of interest The authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

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