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ANNALS OF INTENSIVE CARE
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s13613-023-01177-y
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Critical care; Perioperative care; Fluid stewardship; Crystalloids; Buffered solutions; Fluid therapy
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This article discusses the importance of fluid management during hospitalization and the issues that exist, and provides specific strategies and recommendations to improve the quality and consistency of fluid management.
Although effective and appropriate fluid management is a critical aspect of quality care during hospitalization, the widespread adoption of consistent policies that ensure adequate fluid stewardship has been slow and heterogenous. Despite evidence-based guidelines on fluid management being available, clinical opinions continue to diverge on important aspects of care in this setting, and the consistency of guideline implementation is far from ideal. A multidisciplinary panel of leading practitioners and experts convened to discuss best practices for ongoing staff education, intravenous fluid therapy, new training technologies, and strategies to track the success of institutional fluid stewardship efforts. Fluid leads should be identified in every hospital to ensure consistency in fluid administration and monitoring. In this article, strategies to communicate the importance of effective fluid stewardship for the purposes of education, training, institutional support, and improvement of patient outcomes are reviewed and recommendations are summarized.
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