Citation

Reiss E, Stirman JA, Artz CP, Davis JH, Amspacher WH. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 1953; 152(14): 1309-1313.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1953, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.1953.03690140017004

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

No insult to the body equals a burn in intensity. A severe, untreated burn causes death by initiating incredibly large and rapid shifts of fluids. In burns as well as in other conditions associated with fluid derangements, present day therapy is based on the assumption that optimal care consists of the administration of fluids at the same rate and in the same volume and composition in which they are lost. For instance, the best therapy for a patient who loses 500 cc. of blood during an operation is the administration of the same quantity of blood as rapidly as it is being lost.During the past 10 years, experimental and clinical data have yielded valuable information concerning the volume and rate of fluid losses in burns. Knowledge concerning the composition of fluid losses in burns remains fragmentary, however, and, to a large extent, conjectural. Treatment is correspondingly imperfect. Despite the...

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