Hydroxyethyl Starch or Saline for Fluid Resuscitation in Intensive Care

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John Myburgh · UNSW Sydney

Simon Finfer · Royal North Shore Hospital

Rinaldo Bellomo · The University of Melbourne

Laurent Billot

Alan Cass · The University of Sydney

David Gattas · The University of Sydney

Parisa Glass

Jeffrey Lipman ·

Abstract

In patients in the ICU, there was no significant difference in 90-day mortality between patients resuscitated with 6% HES (130/0.4) or saline. However, more patients who received resuscitation with HES were treated with renal-replacement therapy. (Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and others; CHEST ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00935168.).

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Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Trauma and Emergency Care Studies

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 367, Issue 20, pp. 1901-1911

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1209759

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Hydroxyethyl Starch or Saline for Fluid Resuscitation in Intensive Care

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