Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the clerkship, the student should, for a patient of any size with normal renal function, be able to: 1. Write maintenance fluid orders. 2. Estimate deficits of volume, sodium and potassium and write orders for IV therapy of uncomplicated isonatremic dehydration. 3. Estimate deficits of volume, sodium and potassium and write IV therapy orders for patients ...

The efficacy of low dose long-term erythromycin (EM) therapy in the treatment of chronic lower respiratory tract disease, including diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), has been reported, but its therapeutic mechanism is still unclear. In 13 patients receiving oral EM therapy the accumulation of neutrophils in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid was significantly reduced (p < 0.05), this reduction co...

OBJECTIVES To identify prognostic factors in children receiving continuous renal replacement therapy. DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit of a Hong Kong hospital. PATIENTS Neonatal or paediatric patients who received continuous renal replacement therapy from January 1998 to December 2008. RESULTS In all, 37 patients who received 39 episode...

The effects of fluid therapy on interstitial colloid osmotic and hydrostatic pressures in thermally injured skin were investigated in anesthetized rats subjected to full-thickness scald burns to 40% of the body surface area and resuscitation for 3 hr by either lactated Ringer's or plasma. Interstitial fluid hydrostatic pressure (Pif) was reduced from -2 mm Hg to -20 to -40 mm Hg after injury, w...