CONTINUOUS INTRAVENOUS SALINE

Intravenous Saline

Intravenous Saline in Cholera—A Contra Indication

Sir,?May I have a little space in your esteemed journal for a few lines which may be useful to some of your readers. In cholera the condition of the pulse is the most important indication for intravenous injection of saline solution, and even my renowned professor Sir L. Rogers says, " if there is no pulse at the wrist, or if it is barely perceptible, there can be 110 hesitation about the immed...

Pyrogenic Reactions Following Intravenous Saline Infusions

the blood cannot neutralize or buffer, reactions characterized by chill and prostration follow. The present paper reports a study of these two rival theories. Origin of the work : In order to render saline solutions used in cholera cases nonpyrogenic, Panja, Malik, Paul and Ghosh (1942) prepared hypertonic saline solutions in freshly prepared distilled water and observed that these did not prod...

Pyrogenic Reactions Following Intravenous Saline Infusions

Sir,?I was interested in the paper entitled ' Pyrogenic reactions following intravenous saline infusions ' by Drs. B. M. Paul and B. C. Chatterjee in the July issue of the' Indian Medical Gazette (Vol. LXXIX, No. 7, p. 304). Nine years ago in the surgical wards of the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, I had occasion to give a particularly large number of intravenous saline infusions for a prolonged period...

The Continuous Administration of Saline per Rectum

Twenty years ago J. B. Murphy wrote regarding appendicitis, " We have treated on this plan forty-seven consecutive cases of peritonitis, of the direct perforative type, with two deaths, one, the sixteenth case, of a double pneumonia six days after operation, long after all peritoneal symptoms had subsided, the other, the fortyfifth case, died on the fourth day from an intestinal obstruction due...