Costly colloids were no more effective than less-expensive crystalloids in reducing the risk for death when used to resuscitate patients with significant blood loss, according to a study published ...

Among intensive care unit (ICU) patients with hypovolemia, treatment with colloids vs crystalloids was associated with similar 28-day mortality, according to a multicenter, randomized clinical trial ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

What are starch-based colloid fluids and how do they differ from saline-based crystalloid fluids? Saline is just salty water, whereas colloids are solutions that have large molecules in them. In this ...

Urine is a highly saturated solution of extremely complicated composition. Its basic organic constituents are urea, uric acid and its salts, formed by the oxidation of purines. In that fluid, ...