The Origins of Intravenous Fluid Therapy

Cosnett, J. E.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(89)92583-x

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“…When the cholera pandemic arrived in England, in 1831 O’Shaughnessy, on also demonstrating haemoconcentration in cholera patients, recommended intravenous fluids to “restore blood to its natural specific gravity” and “restore its deficient saline matters” [16]. This leads to Latta’s first successful attempts at fluid resuscitation with crystalloid solutions [10, 14–16]. Despite these and other initial reports of success during the pandemic, the practice did not achieve widespread use [10].…”

Section: Evolution Of Fluid Resuscitation As a Therapy For Septic Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This leads to Latta’s first successful attempts at fluid resuscitation with crystalloid solutions [10, 14–16]. Despite these and other initial reports of success during the pandemic, the practice did not achieve widespread use [10]. …”

Section: Evolution Of Fluid Resuscitation As a Therapy For Septic Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its beginnings date to the European cholera epidemic of the 1830s, where it was first used to replace the losses associated with cholera diarrhoea [10]. In modern practice, fluid resuscitation has developed to encompass both corrections of absolute and relative hypovolemic states with the additional goal of augmenting cardiac output to restore organ perfusion pressure and improve oxygen transport to cells [5, 11, 12].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Fluid resuscitation in human sepsis: Time to rewrite history?

Byrne

Haren

2017

Ann. Intensive Care

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Fluid resuscitation continues to be recommended as the first-line resuscitative therapy for all patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. The current acceptance of the therapy is based in part on long history and familiarity with its use in the resuscitation of other forms of shock, as well as on an incomplete and incorrect understanding of the pathophysiology of sepsis. Recently, the safety of intravenous fluids in patients with sepsis has been called into question with both prospective and observational data suggesting improved outcomes with less fluid or no fluid. The current evidence for the continued use of fluid resuscitation for sepsis remains contentious with no prospective evidence demonstrating benefit to fluid resuscitation as a therapy in isolation. This article reviews the historical and physiological rationale for the introduction of fluid resuscitation as treatment for sepsis and highlights a number of significant concerns based on current experimental and clinical evidence. The research agenda should focus on the development of hyperdynamic animal sepsis models which more closely mimic human sepsis and on experimental and clinical studies designed to evaluate minimal or no fluid strategies in the resuscitation phase of sepsis.

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Section: Evolution Of Fluid Resuscitation As a Therapy For Septic Shockmentioning

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Section: Evolution Of Fluid Resuscitation As a Therapy For Septic Shockmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Fluid resuscitation in human sepsis: Time to rewrite history?

Byrne

Haren

2017

Ann. Intensive Care

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“…In 1944 they showed in Cairo that as much as 100 litres of isotonic saline or dextrose-saline might be required to replace the fluid lost from the bowels in cholera. 9 When in 1946 I was posted as a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps to Delhi, the copper sulphate technique was already in use, which shows the speed with which important advances can be adopted.…”

Section: Choleramentioning

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Axel Munthe’s The Story of San Michele revisited

Bayliss

2003

Clinical Medicine

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“…Historically, an understanding of the morbidity and mortality that accompanies significant perturbations in fluid and electrolyte balance dates to clinical observations made in epidemics of cholera and other diarrheal illness in the eighteenth century [1]. The recognition that moribund patients could be saved with provision of salt solutions spurred interest in defining the fluid and electrolyte needs in healthy individuals and in developing clinical parameters for fluid and electrolyte therapy.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%