Effects of Colloid or Crystalloid Administration on Pulmonary Extravascular Water in the Postoperative Period After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Morbidity in hospitalized patients receiving human albumin: A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials*

“…All had been reported in published form. In response to inquiries seeking morbidity data absent from the published reports, the investigators of 12 trials furnished unpublished data (34,36,47,49,60,65,66,71,72,74,92,96).…”

Measurement of extra-vascular lung water during abdominal aortic surgery

“…In another study Gallagher, Moore et al confLrmed that EVLW does not change during coronary artery bypass grafting as long as PCWP is maintained less than 14 mmHg in spite of different types of intravenous fluid administration. 17 Shires et al compared the effects of crystalloid versus colloid infusion in patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery, 's in whom the PCWP was kept within 2 mmHg of preoperative levels. No change was found in EVLW immediately after surgery in both groups compared with the preoperative measurements.…”

Update on transfusion solutions during surgery: review of hydroxyethyl starches 130/0.4

“…This could thus affect the contribution of infusion fluids to pulmonary edema formation. Indeed, researchers have documented an increase in extravascular lung water (EVLW) after cardiac or major vascular surgery and fluid loading, at least transiently in some patients 57–59,67–70. Verheij et al71 hypothesized that colloid fluid loading would aggravate less edema formation in the lungs than saline loading in the treatment of presumed hypovolemia after major surgery, even if complicated by increased pulmonary permeability.…”