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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 1172-1175Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-1515
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Viral hemorrhagic fevers often lead to circulatory shock, requiring optimized fluid therapy for management. However, there is a lack of data and guidelines in this area. An innovative monitoring approach proposes remote-controlled and pulse pressure-guided fluid resuscitation to enhance supportive care capacity and reduce the risk of virus transmission.
Circulatory shock, caused by severe intravascular volume depletion resulting from gastrointestinal losses and profound capillary leak, is a common clinical feature of viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola virus disease, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, and Lassa fever. These conditions are associated with high case fatality rates, and they carry a significant risk of infection for treating personnel. Optimized fluid therapy is the cornerstone of management of these diseases, but there are few data on the extent of fluid losses and the severity of the capillary leak in patients with VHFs, and no specific guidelines for fluid resuscitation and hemodynamic monitoring exist. We propose an innovative approach for monitoring VHF patients, in particular suited for low-resource settings, facilitating optimizing fluid therapy through remote-controlled and pulse pressure-guided fluid resuscitation. This strategy would increase the capacity for adequate supportive care, while decreasing the risk for virus transmission to health personnel.
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