Fluid/Blood Resuscitation

ANES 521:  Principles of Anesthesia Practice I

Basic information on intravenous fluids

 

Intravenous therapy

http://www.answers.com/topic/intravenous-therapyn

 

Fluid Physiology:  Water and the blood:brain barrier

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl4_5.php

 

Fluid Physiology:  Sensors for control of water balance

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl5_2.php

 

Fluid Physiology: Osmotic forces & compartment volumes

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl6_1.php

 

Fluid Physiology:  Regulation of cell volume

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl6_2.php

 

Fluid Physiology:  Crystalloids

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl7_2.php

 

Fluid Physiology:  Colloids

http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/FluidBook/fl7_3.php

 

Transfusion Therapy

 

Clinical use of blood

http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u14/u1406_01.htm

 

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies

http://www.asahq.org/publicationsAndServices/BCTGuidesFinal.pdf

 

Transfusion for massive blood loss

http://www.trauma.org/resus/massive.html

 

Current recommendations for FFP

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat4.section.571

 

 

 

 

Resources

Fluid management in selected patient populations

 

Pediatric anesthesiology:  the basics

http://www.anesthesia.wisc.edu/med3/Peds/pedshandout.html

 

Fluid resuscitation with colloid or crystalloid solutions in critically ill patients: a systematic review of randomised trials

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/316/7136/961

 

Colloid versus crystalloids in shock

http://www.ijccm.org/article.asp?issn=0972-5229;year=2004;volume=8;issue=1;spage=14;epage=21;aulast=Hillman

 

Choice of fluid for resuscitation of septic shock

http://emj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/19/2/114

Perioperative fluid management in Infants and Children http://anestit.unipa.it/gta/fluids.html 

 

Anesthetic challenges and considerations presented by the Jehovah’s Witness patient

http://anestit.unipa.it/gta/JehovahsWitness.html

 

Fluid/blood management calculations

 

Calculate allowable blood loss

http://www.manuelsweb.com/blood_loss.htm