In patients with acute circulatory failure, the decision to give fluids or not should not be taken
lightly. The risk of overzealous fluid administration has been clearly established. Moreover …

Optimal perioperative uid management is an important component of Enhanced Recovery
After Surgery (ERAS) pathways. Fluid management within ERAS should be viewed as a …

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School, Norfolk, VA. Address reprint requests to Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCM, FCCP, Eastern …

Fluid administration leads to a significant increase in cardiac output in only half of ICU
patients. This has led to the concept of assessing fluid responsiveness before infusing fluid …

Background Fluid responsiveness is a crucial concept in the management of critically ill
patients, guiding fluid resuscitation to optimize hemodynamics while avoiding fluid overload …

Predicting which patients with acute circulatory failure will respond to fluid by a significant
increase in cardiac output is a daily challenge, in particular in the setting of the intensive …

Unlike many disease processes that surgeons treat in which progress is slow, the
knowledge, definition, diagnosis, research, and treatment of abdominal compartment …

Fluid therapy represents, most of the time, the first-line treatment of circulatory failure in
critically ill patients. However, after initial resuscitation, fluid administration can be …

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Objectives: To compare the passive leg raising test ability to predict fluid responsiveness in
patients with and without intra-abdominal hypertension. Design: Observational study …