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Article: Reports outline pediatrics study results from C. Mann et al.(Report)
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- Pediatrics Week
- Article date:
- November 21, 2009
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According to recent research published in the journal Pediatric Anesthesia, "Standard base excess (SBE) is an important parameter for guiding fluid management in postoperative metabolic acidosis. However, individual SBE components, notably the chloride effect (Cl-eff), provide valuable additional information."
"Cl-eff is the deviation of the strong ion difference (SID) from normal caused by chloride loss or increase and represents the effect on SBE of an abnormal chloride-sodium ratio. Many centers use normal saline (NS) for intravascular volume therapy. In this study, we examined the impact of NS infusion on SBE and its chloride-driven component (Cl-eff) in ...