Patients with a severe traumatic brain injury (and not in shock because of blood loss) who received out-of-hospital administration of hypertonic fluids (a solution with increased concentration of ...

Intravenous administration of isotonic fluids is the standard emergency treatment in the US for patients with severe blood loss, but bioengineering researchers have reported improved resuscitation ...

April 6, 2009 — Hypertonic saline administered acutely to patients in hemorrhagic shock provides no survival benefit, according to interim results of a large, multicenter trial stopped early by the ...