In the cohort of over 55,000 patient encounters, patients who received lactated Ringer solution had more hospital-free days compared with those who received normal saline (marginal mean difference 0.4 ...

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds there may be a better and safer treatment option for emergency department and hospital patients than saline solution, ...

During a recent walk around the emergency room where I work, I noted the number of patients with bags of intravenous fluids hanging above them. Almost everyone had one. Our ER in Boston isn't unique.

image: A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare finds there may be a better and safer treatment option for emergency department and hospital patients than saline solution, which is used ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lactated Ringer solution is the preferred volume resuscitation fluid for patients with sickle cell disease who ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

Hospitals across the country are struggling with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline solution — essentially pharmaceutical-grade saltwater. The ...

Grifols, a producer of plasma-derived medicines, entered a distribution agreement with Henry Schein, which will market and distribute Grifol’s 500 milliliter normal saline solution in the U.S. Grifols ...

Nine normal volunteer subjects (6 males and 3 females), nineteen to thirty-six years of age, and 5 patients with primary aldosteronism (3 females and 2 males), forty to fifty-two years of age, were ...

At least 40 patients mistakenly received unsterilized, "simulated" intravanous fluids -- meant for training only -- instead of the sterile saline solution normally given to people in the hospital, ...