Use of lactated Ringer solution for fluid resuscitation among patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) and vaso-occlusive episodes was associated with a small -- but significant -- improvement in ...

Lactated Ringer's solution yielded a similar composite risk of death or hospital readmission within 90 days as normal saline. A small absolute lower risk of 90-day mortality was seen, but it was not ...

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A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds there may be a better and safer treatment option for emergency department and hospital patients than saline solution, ...

image: A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare finds there may be a better and safer treatment option for emergency department and hospital patients than saline solution, which is used ...

During a recent walk around the emergency room where I work, I noted the number of patients with bags of intravenous fluids hanging above them. Almost everyone had one. Our ER in Boston isn't unique.

Hospitals across the country are struggling with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline solution — essentially pharmaceutical-grade saltwater. The ...

Nine normal volunteer subjects (6 males and 3 females), nineteen to thirty-six years of age, and 5 patients with primary aldosteronism (3 females and 2 males), forty to fifty-two years of age, were ...