The Fluid Decision Happens in the ED. We’ve Been Treating It Like It Happens in the ICU.

When a patient arrives in our emergency department with persistent hypotension, our team needs to quickly answer one question: will IV fluids help this patient, or will they cause harm? That question doesn’t wait for an ICU admission or a specialist consult. It gets answered in the first hour with whatever information is available to […] The post The Fluid Decision Happens in the ED. We’ve Been Treating It Like It Happens in the ICU. appeared first on Becker's Hospital Rev...