Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection.
By K. Maitland, S. Kiguli, R. Opoka, C. Engoru, P. Olupot‐Olupot, S. Akech, Richard Nyeko, G. Mtove, H. Reyburn, Trudie Lang and 8 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2011
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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Epidemiology, Surgery
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- Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 (2017, background): “One trial of children (mostly with malaria) in Africa, in a setting where escalation to mechanical ventilation and other organ support was limited, questioned this practice [230].”
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children (2020, methodology): “28) showed no difference in mortality (183).”
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2020, positive): “In 2011, a large RCT of 3,141 febrile African children (FEAST) found that children randomized to fluid boluses with saline or albumin had increased mortality compared with children not receiving fluid boluses (53) .”
- Does the Central Venous Pressure Predict Fluid Responsiveness? An Updated Meta-Analysis and a Plea for Some Common Sense* (2013, background): “However, overzealous fluid resuscitation has been associated with increased comphcations, increased length of ICU and hospital stay, and increased mortality (9-13).”
- Sepsis and septic shock. (2018, background): “Indeed, in resource-limited settings, fluid bolus therapy has been found to be associated with worse outcomes in children with malaria 51 and in adults with septic shock compared with standard therapy.”