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. 2025 Jun 10:13:1594336.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1594336. eCollection 2025.

Pediatric fluid resuscitation: an oxymoron?

Franco Diaz  1   2   3 , Jocelyn Riderelli  1 , Roberto Jabornisky  3   4
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Pediatric fluid resuscitation: an oxymoron?

Franco Diaz et al. Front Pediatr. .
No abstract available

Keywords: fluid over load; fluids; pediatric; sepsis; septic shock.

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